‘A Scion of a Noble’ by Andrew MacCallum (1821-1902). The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1889, in which year it was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in London.

At first glance the title of the painting appears to refer to the aristocratic young gentleman in hunting pinks on horseback in conversation with his gamekeeper. However, because the artist is one of England’s greatest ever tree painters it also alludes to the oak tree towering above him, no less the offspring of a noble line. We are left wondering if the young lord is in his own way as crooked and shady as the tree.

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Andrew MacCallum entered the Government School of Art (the future Royal College of Art) in 1852 where he was taught by Richard Redgrave RA (1804-1888) and John Rogers Herbert (1810-1890). Of all the fine painters to emerge during the 1850s, either through what became known as “the South Kensington System” or the Royal Academy Schools, there was no finer draftsman than Andrew MacCallum. His meticulously detailed pure landscapes are glorious celebrations of the English countryside.

Between 1849 and 1889 Andrew MacCallum exhibited 53 times at the Royal Academy as well as at the British Institution, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Grosvenor Gallery and the Dudley Gallery in London, and internally at the Paris Salon, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Today his paintings can be found in Tate Britain and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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Dimensions: (framed) 107cm x 79cm (42” x 31”)

Dimensions: (canvas only) 90cm x 62cm (35½ x 24½”)

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Provenance: 1889: exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in London. Private UK collection.

Presentation: Bespoke gold metal leaf frame.

Condition: Very good. Professionally cleaned, restored, and re-varnished. Ready to hang.