Sir Henry Raeburn RA 1756-1823
Henry Raeburn was born at Stockbridge, Edinburgh. After he left school he was apprenticed, at the age of sixteen, to an Edinburgh jeweller, during which time he began to paint portrait miniatures. Raeburn began to make his name as a painter of full-sized portraits in oil following his return to Edinburgh from Rome in the mid-1780s. He developed a distinctive, individual method of lighting his subjects. Success led to the establishment of his studio at York Place. Living and working in Edinburgh for the rest of his life, Raeburn painted the portraits of many distinguished gentlemen and their family members. Honoured in his final years, Raeburn was knighted in 1822 and was appointed the king's painter and limner in Scotland in 1823.
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Twenty Twenty One
30 Sep - 13 Nov 2021The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of work by Scottish artists, including: Allan Ramsay, Sir Henry Raeburn, John Knox, Sir David Wilkie, Patrick Nasmyth, David Roberts, Alexander Johnston, Sam...Read more -
Twenty Twenty
25 Sep - 14 Nov 2020Fra Giovanni Giocondo, a late 15th, early 16th century priest and scholar who designed the bridge at Notre Dame said, 'The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind...Read more -
A History in Small Pictures
31 Jul - 29 Aug 2020A survey of Scottish art over three centuries. Diminutive paintings by, amongst others, John Clerk of Eldin, Sir David Wilkie, Alexander Nasmyth, Sir Henry Raeburn, Sam Bough, John MacWhirter, E...Read more -
In The Frame
Small Paintings and Antique Frames 18 Jan - 16 Feb 2019An exhibition of small paintings by Scottish artists displayed within groups of antique frames from the 18th-20th centuries. These were a selection of frames from our extensive period frame stock...Read more -
Signatures Of Scottish Art
140 Years of the Fine Art Society 10 Jun - 9 Jul 2016Exhibited during the year that The Fine Art Society celebrated its 140th anniversary, the occasion was marked in our Edinburgh gallery with the exhibition Signatures of Scottish Art. The show...Read more -
Scottishness in Art
1750-1980 5 Jul - 7 Sep 2013The eighteenth century saw Scotland take a giant step forward. It opened trade with English colonies and saw Scotland rise culturally, socially and economically. It was against this backdrop that...Read more -
Five Centuries of Scottish Portraiture
30 Jul - 3 Sep 2011Portraits are windows into the period in which in they were painted – not merely because they demonstrate the painting techniques of the time, the fashions of art or of...Read more
