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John Guthrie of Carbeth
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
76.0 × 63.3 cm
Accession Number
230-4
Department
International Painting
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1935
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Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
half figures magistrates men (male humans) merchants spectacles (eyeglasses) West Indian
Provenance
Collection of John Guthrie of Carbeth (1768–1834), until 1834; by descent to a cousin, William Smith (1787–1871), Carbeth Guthrie, Strathblane, Stirlingshire, 1834–71; exhibited Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, 1868, no. 118; by descent to John Guthrie Smith (1834–94), Helensburgh, Woodside, Mugdock Castle (in 1884), 1871–94; exhibited Exhibition Illustrative of Old Glasgow, Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, July-October 1894, no. 227; with the Western Club, Glasgow, 1894–1934; from where purchased, through W. Norman Scott, on the advice of Bernard Hall, for the Felton Bequest, 1935.

Exhibited Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, 1868, no. 118; Exhibition Illustrative of Old Glasgow, Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, July-October 1894, no. 227