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| Title | Alexander Walker, LLD | |
| Collection | Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums | |
| Artist | Legros, Alphonse (French painter, sculptor, printmaker, 1837-1911) | |
| Date | 1880 | |
| Description | Alexander Walker has been painted in profile, facing left. He is bearded and wears a skull-cap. The outline of the upper torso, and some basic details, have been loosely painted in, but they appear unfinished in comparison to the face and head; the torso is the same colour as the plain brown background. | |
| Current Accession Number | ABDAG002502 | |
| Former Accession Number | 80.1.1 | |
| Subject | portrait (Walker, Alexander) | |
| Measurements | 54.9 x 43.4 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Alphonse Legros 1880. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Aberdeen Artists Society,1890, cat. no. 16. | |
| Notes | Inscribed on a plaque at the lower edge of the frame: 'Alex Walker esq. President, Mechanics Institute, 1878-1885 painted in one hour, in the Song School by Professor Legros before the art scholars and 500 others, January, 1880' |
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| Rights Owner | Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums | |
| Author | Jennifer Melville | |