WILLIAM MCTAGGART, R.S.A., V.P.R.S.W., (SCOTTISH, 1835-1910) - photo 1
WILLIAM MCTAGGART, R.S.A., V.P.R.S.W., (SCOTTISH, 1835-1910) - photo 2
WILLIAM MCTAGGART, R.S.A., V.P.R.S.W., (SCOTTISH, 1835-1910) - photo 3

WILLIAM MCTAGGART, R.S.A., V.P.R.S.W., (SCOTTISH, 1835-1910)

Lot 50
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ID 998881
Lot 50 | WILLIAM MCTAGGART, R.S.A., V.P.R.S.W., (SCOTTISH, 1835-1910)
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£ 30 000 – 40 000
WILLIAM MCTAGGART, R.S.A., V.P.R.S.W., (SCOTTISH, 1835-1910)

Past and Present

signed and dated 'McTaggart/1860' (lower right) and further signed, inscribed and dated 'The Past and Present/ William McTaggart/ Feb 1860' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

30 1/8 x 36 in. (76.5 x 91.5 cm.)





Provenance

Robert Craig, Glasgow 1860.

Anonymous sale; Dowells, Edinburgh, 31 October 1874.

A. D. Grimond; Christie's, London, 25 May 1903, lot 72. (105 gns. to Wallis).

P. McOmish Dott, by 1917.

Sir John McTaggart, Bt.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 26 August 1980, lot 742.

with Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, 1988.

Private Collection.



Literature

J. Caw, William McTaggart, R.S.A, a biography and an Appreciation, 1917, pp. 26, 28, 30- 31, illustrated.

L. Errington, William McTaggart 1835-1910, 1989, pp. 28-33, pl. 25, illustrated.

P. Kvaerne, William McTaggart 1835-1910: Singing Songs of the Scottish Heart, Edinburgh, 2007, pp. 53-7, no. 44, illustrated.



Exhibited

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 1860, no. 159.

Edinburgh, Aitken Dott & Son, 1907.

Edinburgh, Bourne Fine Art, Scottish Impressionism and Post Impressionism: McTaggart to Fergusson, 1988, no. 1.

Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland (at the Royal Scottish Academy), 10 August - 29 October, 1989, no. 13.
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