Alexander Runciman 18th.Century Scottish School Red Chalk Figure Study Circa.1770

Alexander Runciman 18th.Century Scottish School Red Chalk Figure Study Circa.1770Alexander Runciman 1736 1785 Scottish School 18th. Century. Red Chalk Drawing. Classical Figure study. Initialled lower left. 6. 8 by 12 cms image. 24. 5 by 30. 5 cms framed overall. Born at Edinburgh, Runciman initially studied at the Foulis Academy, Glasgow, and was later apprenticed to the landscape painter Robert Norie, as well as working as a stage set designer in Edinburgh. In 1767, he went to Rome, where he developed an appreciation for

Catalogued as believed to be a portrait of Mary 'Perdita' Robinson

Sculptures by Renard are held by many important public collections

The preparatory drawing for the aquatint engraving by William Bond titled "Portrait of a Knight" illustration to Sir George Nayler's 'The Coronation of George IV' (London: 1824)

Highly successful in his lifetime

presented in a 19th

Century Pen Ink & Gouache watercolour painting

whose hall at Penicuik House he decorated with a series of subjects from Ossian

Naples with Mount Vesuvius in the distance

Elizabeth Jennings 1781-1846 was the daughter of the collector John Constantine Jennings

Venus Anadyomene after Titian

the reverse bears the trade label of Parr Printseller & Frame Maker Pall Mall

Some cockling to sheet age discoloration and surface abrasion all to no real detriment