Jessie Mc Greggor 1847-1919 British

Description: Jessie Mc Greggor 1847-1919 BritishPLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A COPY ....this has been looked at by a professional conservator and has been proven to be the real original painting! There seems to be companies out there who copy this painting.....BUT this is the original!See the original listing when auctioned at Freeman's Philadelphia....(they dont take fakes)Lot 49: JESSIE MACGREGOR, (BRITISH 1847-1919), THE NEW PETSold: Freeman'sAugust 10, 2016Philadelphia, PA, USMore About this ItemItem OverviewDescription: JESSIE MACGREGOR (british 1847-1919) THE NEW PET Signed and dated 'Jessie MacGregor 1875' bottom left, oil on canvas 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6cm) provenance: Private Collection, Pennsylvania. Condition Report: The unlined canvas with four patches on verso that correspond with restoration on front of canvas. There is prominent craquelure with some retouch to the man Frame: 38 1/2 x 48 1/2 in. Jessie Mc Greggor 1847-1919 BritishAn ideal romantic Victorian painting in a classic style by a very accomplished women artist of the period. This painting has all the components of a beautiful bucolic setting done expertly by a well listed and quite famous British artist. This is genre painting at its finest. Every detail has been considered in this handsome painting, little tufts of grass are painted with special detail in between the roof tiles, and special attentions taken to dress of the figures. Micro still lifes througout the painting further enhance the realist technical expertise of this painting. Painting is oil on canvas and measures 40x30 viewing surface, and 38.5 x 49 framed. Painting professionally cleaned and is in perfect hanging condition. Nicely framed with newer frame. JESSIE MACGREGOR, The gold medal in the Royal Academy Schools forhistorical painting, a medal given biennially, and but one other womanhas received it. Born in Liverpool. Pupil of the Schools of the RoyalAcademy; her principal teachers were the late Lord Leighton, the late P.H. Calderon, R.A., and John Pettie, R.A.Macgregor first learned drawing at the drawing academy in Liverpool run by her grandfather Andrew Hunt. Her parents went to live in London and she began to study painting there, becoming a pupil at the Schools of the Royal Academy where her teachers were Lord Leighton, P. H. Calderon, R.A., and John Pettie, R.A.She won a gold medal at the Royal Academy for history painting in 1871. She was the second woman after Louisa Starr's gold medal in 1867, and the last woman to do so until 1909. She beat Julia Cecilia Smith and Julia Bracewell Folkard. It was noted how these three women's achievements revealed the silliness of the rules that excluded women from becoming full members of the Royal Academy.MacGregor exhibited paintings at Chicago World Exposition in 1893. Her principal works are "In the Reign of Terror" and "Jephthah's Vow,"both in the Liverpool Permanent Collection; "The Mistletoe Bough";"Arrested, or the Nihilist"; "Flight," exhibited at Royal Academy in 1901; "King Edward VII.," 1902.Miss Macgregor was a lecturer on art in the Victoria University ExtensionLecture Scheme, and has lectured on Italian painting and on the NationalGallery in many places.At the London Academy in 1903 she exhibited "The Nun," "If a Woman HasLong Hair, it is a Glory to Her," I Cor. xi. 15; "Behind the Curtain,""Christmas in a Children's Hospital," and "Little Bo-peep."Her painting In the Reign of Terror was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.

Price: 2400 USD

Location: Woodstown, New Jersey

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