The McEwan Gallery Royal Deeside

The McEwan Gallery
Royal Deeside
The McEwan Gallery
Royal Deeside
41st Annual
Summer Exhibition
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We invite you to the
PRIVATE VIEW
Sunday 2nd August 2–5pm
The constantly changing Exhibition continues until October 31
Tuesday–Saturday 11am–5pm Sunday 2–5pm
All items in the brochure are available for sale with many more to view
on the Website and at the Gallery
The pictures are in oil unless otherwise stated
The McEwan Gallery
Ballater (on A939) Aberdeenshire AB35 5UB
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Front Cover: 1. Joseph Farquharson RA (1846–1935) An Egyptian Market 20x30ʹʹ
Exhibited Royal
Academy 1924 No
170, considered a
masterpiece of the
genre.
English painter
in oil and
watercolour of
portraits, figures
and historical
subjects. His
instruction
manual The
Practice and
Science of
Drawing, 1913,
has run to many
editions. The
tale of Daphnis
and Chloe is
from Greek
mythology, a
story of orphaned
children, who
fall in love while
surviving all
manner of trials
and tribulations,
before finally
marrying and
living happily ever
after.
2. Harold Speed (1872–1957) Daphnis and Chloe 50x61ʹʹ
3. Joan Eardley ARSA (1921–1963) The Pink Jersey
Pastel 6¼x4ʹʹ
4. Robert McGregor RSA (1847–1922) The Toy Duck 9x5ʹʹ
6. Ronald Meilof (Dutch Contemporary) Sunshine on the North Sea 12x39ʹʹ
8. Judith I Bridgland Harebells by the Sea, Portrush 10x10ʹʹ
5. Judith I Bridgland (Contemporary)
Setting Sun Over Fields 10x10ʹʹ
7. Dick van Heerde
(Dutch Contemporary)
Family Crossing 11x19ʹʹ
11. Martin
Hayward Harris
Begging Otter
Ed 7/8 Bronze
25ʹʹ high
9. Henry Wright Kerr RSA RSW (1857–1936)
Light of Heart Watercolour 16x11ʹʹ
10. Henry Wright Kerr RSA RSW (1857–1936)
Dressed for the Occasion Watercolour 16x11ʹʹ
12. Paul Jones
(fl. 1855–88)
Hunting Scenes –
On the Scent /
A Moment’s Rest
(pair) 8x12ʹʹ
13. Carolyn
Rockwood
(Contemporary)
Summer, West
Coast, Lewis Mixed
Media 12x12ʹʹ
14. Carolyn Rockwood Island Beach, Hebrides
Mixed Media 14x14ʹʹ
15. Donald M Shearer (1925–2014) Winter Magic 19½x23½ʹʹ
16. Daniel van der Putten (Contemporary)
Deer in Winter 13½x17ʹʹ
18. Robert
Gemmell
Hutchison
RSA RBA RSW
(1855–1936)
Leisure Moments
Watercolour 7x5ʹʹ
17. Joseph Farquharson RA (1846–1935)
A Rough Cattle Beast 9x12ʹʹ
19. Marianne Grant (1921–2007)
Still life of Flowers in Green Vase 36x29ʹʹ
20. Lion Feijen Compôte of Fruit 5x8ʹʹ
Grant was born in
Prague and experienced
the terrible fate of seven
years in various ghettoes
and concentration
camps. She survived
Auschwitz by painting
for Mengele and after
the War published a
booklet called ‘I Knew
I was Painting for My
Life’ to accompany an
exhibition of her work at
Kelvingrove Gallery.
21. Vincent Balfour Browne (1880–1963) Black Grouse in Flight
Watercolour 14x21ʹʹ
22. Scottish School Ballater Bridge 1875 Watercolour 9x13½ʹʹ
24. William Miller Frazer RSA (1864–1961) Cattle Grazing 13½x17ʹʹ
23. Trevor Haddon (1864–1941) At the Well, Toledo Watercolour 11x16ʹʹ
26. Jackie Philip
Strawberries
8x8ʹʹ
25. Att. Joan Eardley ARSA (1921–1963) Group of Children at School Gate
Pencil and Crayon 11½x16ʹʹ
28. Raoul Dufy
(1877–1953)
La Violiniste et La Pianiste
Pencil 5x3½ʹʹ
27. Jackie Philip
(Contemporary)
In Conference
14x14ʹʹ
29. Judith
I Bridgland
(Contemporary)
Paths in the
Bracken, the
Campsies 32x32ʹʹ
30. Judith I Bridgland Rocks on the Beach, Camusdarach 24x26ʹʹ
31. Judith I
Bridgland Red
Rhododendrons and
Buds 20x20ʹʹ
32. Judith I
Bridgland Cottage
in Glen Douglas
20x20ʹʹ
34. Frank Moss Bennett (1874–1952) Feathered Tails 14½x20ʹʹ
33. George Morland (1763–1804) Feeding Time 19x23½ʹʹ
35. James McBey (1883–1959) Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico
Watercolour 10½x15½ʹʹ
36. Alexander Leggett (c1828–1884) Lullaby 19¾x23½ʹʹ
37. Caroline
Rockwood
Farm with Green
Barns, Perthshire
Mixed Media
8x16ʹʹ
39. Alberto
Morrocco
(1917–1998)
OBE FRSA
RSW Mending
the Nets 21x14ʹʹ
38. Stephen Henderson
(Contemporary) Godwit
Wood 14ʹʹ high
40. Selection of Pottery by Pru Green (Contemporary)
41. Neil Clark (1928–2014) Red Tomato 20x26ʹʹ
42. Andrew
Hutchinson
(Contemporary)
Blue and Yellow
Macaw Acrylic
2¼x2ʹʹ
43. Andrew Hutchinson Yellow Labrador Puppy with Snail Acrylic 4x8ʹʹ
44. Andrew Hutchinson
Caught in the Act Acrylic
5x6ʹʹ
45. Andrew Hutchinson
Mallard Acrylic 3¼x2½ʹʹ
47. John Black Red Deer Stag Charcoal 24x33ʹʹ
46. John Black (Contemporary) Over a Misty Burn 20x30ʹʹ
48. John Black On the Alert 24x36ʹʹ
49. John Black
Siberian Tiger
39x39ʹʹ
50. Mo Farquharson
Bicycle
Ltd Edition of 7
51. Mo Farquharson
Washing Day
Ltd Edition of 7
52. Mo Farquharson (Contemporary)
Street 3 Ltd Edition of 7
53. Mo Farquharson
Stretching Labrador
Ltd Edition of 7
55. Lion Feijen
The Red Bowl
7x7ʹʹ
54. Lion Feijen Tomatoes in a Shallow Dish 5x12ʹʹ
57. Lion Feijen No 1 Yellow Tin with Apples 30x30ʹʹ
56. Lion Feijen Red Vase with Quince 29x35ʹʹ
60. Lucy Newton Swan Watercolour 12x14ʹʹ
58. Lucy Newton (Contemporary)
Red Squirrel Watercolour 16x11ʹʹ
59. Lucy Newton Snowy Owl Watercolour 16x11ʹʹ
62. Lucy Newton
Red Deer Stag
Watercolour 23x16ʹʹ
61. Lucy Newton Willow Warbler
Watercolour 6x6ʹʹ
63. Alison Ewan Carbonia Mixed Media 16x18ʹʹ
65. Neil Clark (1928–2014) Red and Yellow Pepper 23x28ʹʹ
64. Gordon Bryce (Contemporary) Silver Teapot and Fruit 19½x23½ʹʹ
66. Alan B Hayman (Contemporary)
Roe Deer and Bluebells 10x16ʹʹ
Monday 19th 1862
“Dear Thackeray / Don’t forget
Tuesday 29th / half past 7 sharp.
/ Landseer logo /
Kensington Jan 20 / My dear
Mrs Whitmore, Have you got Sir
Edwin Landseer’s sign-manual
in your collection? Here is a note
from him which I / hope will
be followed by a pleasant party.
And I am / (in the most artless
way in the world) / Always
very faithfully yours / WM
Thackeray”
67. Sir Edwin Landseer (1802–1873) Put to flight Pen & Ink 7x8ʹʹ
68. Fra Angelico (15th Century)
Archangel Gabriel Gold Leaf and
Watercolour 20x6ʹʹ
69. James Ferguson (1710–1776) Francis Farquharson of Monaltrie
and his sister Rachel Pair of Miniatures Oval Ink and Wash on Vellum,
Ebonised and turned Wood Frames, the reverse of each inscribed with
the sitters’ details and signed James Ferguson Pinxt, 1735 3¼ʹʹ high
70. Fra Angelico St Catherine
of Alexandria Gold Leaf and
Watercolour 20x6ʹʹ
Francis Farquharson was the second of three sons born to Alexander Farquharson of Monaltrie (1676–1745) and Anne Farquharson of Finzean. Rachel
was the second of three daughters born to the couple.
Due to his handsome looks and golden hair, Francis was known as ‘Baron Ban’. He raised 300 men for Bonnie Prince Charlie and took part in battles at
Inverurie and Falkirk before finally being taken prisoner at Culloden. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London. On the very morning of his execution,
28 November 1746, he was reprieved but not pardoned. According to romantic rumour he owed his life to the intercession of an undisclosed lady with
influence at the court. A germ of truth gave rise to this as a Roman Catholic lady of wealth, Margaret Eyre of Hassop in Derbyshire, fell in love with his
highland looks and he duly married her in 1763. It was to be 20 years 4 months and 1 day from the date of his capture before he returned to his native
heath in 1766 a wealthy, childless, pardoned Rebel. Since his old home north of the Dee a mile upstream from Balmoral had been burnt as a reprisal he
quartered himself with the Minister of Glenmuick and built himself a new house at the foot of Craigendarroch which he called Ballater House. His wife’s
wealth enabled him to purchase back the estate in 1784.
During his long exile in Hertfordshire he had studied agricultural improvements, and these he now brought to the land around Ballater. And he laid
further foundations for the future Ballater by discovering and extolling the extraordinary virtue of the mineral springs at Pannanich Wells, and in the
impetus he gave to their development. Moreover he was prime mover in the building of the first bridge across the Dee at Ballater opening in 1783.
He died in 1790 at the ripe old age of 80, “universally regretted” as the Aberdeen Journal put it. He lies buried in the Farquharson burial aisle near the
ruins of the old Kirkyard at Crathie. Remembered as the handsomest and most generous Officer in the Rebel army his portrait hangs at Invercauld,
treasured together with his sword, bible and desk.
71. Archibald Thorburn
(1860–1935) Fox in Winter
Limited Edition Print
7½x10ʹʹ
72. Archibald Thorburn
Partridge in Woodland
Limited Edition Print
7½x10ʹʹ
73. Archibald Thorburn
Partridge in Woodland
Limited Edition Print
7½x10ʹʹ
74. Archibald Thorburn
Pheasant in Winter
Limited Edition Print
11x14½ʹʹ
75. Archibald Thorburn
Black Game in Winter
Limited Edition Print
11x14½ʹʹ
76. Archibald Thorburn
Woodcock
Limited Edition Print
7½x10ʹʹ
78. Vincent Balfour Browne Something’s Moved Them Sgd print 10½x16ʹʹ
(one of two)
77. After Cecil Aldin (1870–1935) The Old Mill
Sgd Artist’s Proof 1924 8½x8ʹʹ
79. Archibald Thorburn Covey of Grouse
Limited Edition Print 11x14½ʹʹ
80. Cecil Aldin
Hoop and Stick
Print 10x27ʹʹ
81. Cecil Aldin
Leapfrog
Print 10x27ʹʹ
Back cover: 82. After Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)
Sheep and Cows by a River Watercolour 12x15ʹʹ
Fine 18th/19th century copy after the original which was exhibited in
Gainsborough’s home, Schomberg House in Pall Mall, in 1787