James Dromgole Linton - Mary Stuart In A Landscape

James DROMGOLE LINTON (London 1840 - 1916)
Presumed portrait of Mary Stuart in Sir Walter Scott's The Abbot
Watercolor over pencil lines and white gouache highlights 
48.3 x 30.5 cm unframed 
Slight tears restored in the corners, mounted on panel 
Monogrammed and dated 90 lower right, engraved on verso "James Dromgole linton PRI" and "Evangeline".
Framed in its original marie-louise

Provenance: 
- Galerie Thomas Agnew & Sons, their label on the reverse of the panel

Contemplative watercolor by English painter Sir James DROMGOLE LINTON (1840 - 1916), depicting a Mary Stuart dreaming of escaping from her island prison of Loch Leven, inspired by Sir Walter Scott's novel narrating the Queen's exile. The watercolor was probably exhibited for a dedicated salon around 1890-1891, an assumption underlined by the name engraved on the original marie-louise. Its resplendent state of freshness and the fact that it once passed through the Thomas Agnew gallery are further testimony to its quality in the purest English taste. 

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