Artist: William Craig Shirreff
Date: 1805
Size: 77 x 92 cm
Museum: Scottish National Gallery (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
In 1805, this painting won a student prize for Shirreff while he was at the Trustees’ Academy. He chose an episode from the life of Mary, Queen of Scots which had been related by Gilbert Stuart in his influential ‘History of Scotland’ (1783). In a letter to his father the young artist wrote:
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