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Historical Artist - George Jamesone (1759 - 1817)
Scottish portraitist, George Jamesone worked mostly out of Aberdeen and Edinburgh. At one
point, he was thought to have trained under Rubens but it is now known that that was not the
case. His style is reflective of Cornelius Johnson’s, though Jamesone was nicknamed
‘the Scottish van Dyck.’ Many Scottish portraits are attributed to him. However,
most of his work was badly preserved. Jamesone's pupil, John Michael Wright, also went on to be
a highly important portrait painter in seventeenth century British art. Although Jamesone had
several children with his young Aberdonian wife Isabella Tosche, only one lived to adulthood.
This was his youngest daughter Mary. Mary Jamesone inherited her father's artistic talents and
excelled in the craft of needlework. Four examples of her dexterity, four scenes from the Old
Testament and Apocrypha, can be seen to this day in St. Nicholas Kirk in Aberdeen.
Contemporary United Kingdom Artists
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