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PETTIE, JOHN (1839-1893)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 336 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETTIE, See also:JOHN (1839-1893) , Scottish painter, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 17th of See also:March 1839, the son of See also:Alexander and See also:Alison Pettie. In 1852 the See also:family removed to See also:East See also:Linton, See also:Haddingtonshire, and a portrait by the lad of the See also:village See also:carrier and his donkey overcame his See also:father's objections to See also:art as a career for his son. When sixteen he entered the Trustees' See also:Academy in Edinburgh, working under See also:Robert See also:Scott See also:Lauder with W. Q. See also:Orchardson, J. MacWhirter, W. M`Taggart, See also:Peter See also:Graham, Tom Graham and G. P. See also:Chalmers. His first exhibits at the Royal Scottish Academy were " A See also:Scene from the Fortunes of See also:Nigel "—one of the many subjects for which he sought See also:inspiration in the novels of See also:Sir See also:Walter Scott—and two portraits in 1858, followed in 1859 by " The See also:Prison Pet." To the Royal Academy in 186o he sent " The Armourers "; and the success of this See also:work and or " What d'ye Lack, Madam? " in the following See also:year, encouraged him to See also:settle in See also:London (1862), where he joined Orchardson. In 1866 he was elected an See also:Associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1874 received full academical honours in See also:succession to Sir See also:Edwin See also:Landseer.

His diploma picture was " See also:

Jacobites, 1745." Pettie was a hard and rapid worker, and, in his best days, a colourist of a high See also:order and a brilliant executant. In his See also:early days he produced a certain amount of See also:book See also:illustration. His connexion with See also:Good Words began in 1861, and was continued till 1864. With J. MacWhirter he illustrated The Postman's Bag (Strahan, 1862), and See also:Wordsworth's See also:Poetry for the See also:Young (Strahan, 1863). His See also:principal paintings, in addition to those already mentioned, are " See also:Cromwell's See also:Saints " (1862); " The Trio " (1863); " See also:George See also:Fox refusing to take the See also:Oath " (1864); " A Drumhead See also:Court-See also:martial "(1865); " The See also:Arrest for See also:Witchcraft " (1866) ; " See also:Treason" (1867, now in the Mappin Art See also:Gallery, See also:Sheffield); " Tussle with a Highland Smuggler " (1868); " The Sally " (1870); " Terms to the Besieged " (1872) ; " The Fiag of Truce " (1873); " Ho ! Ho ! Old Noll " and " A See also:State See also:Secret " (1874) ; "A See also:Sword and See also:Dagger Fight" (1877) ; " The See also:Death See also:Warrant " (1879) ; " See also:Monmouth and See also:James II."(1882); " The See also:Vigil " (1884, in the See also:Chantrey Collection, See also:National Gallery of See also:British Art); " Challenged " (1885); " The Chieftain's Candlesticks " (1886) ; " Two Strings to Her See also:Bow " (1887); " The Traitor " and " Sir See also:Charles See also:Wyndham as See also:David See also:Garrick " (1888); and " The See also:Ultimatum " and " Bonnie See also:Prince Charlie " (1892). Pettie died at See also:Hastings on the 21st of See also:February 1893. In 1894 a selection of his work was included in the See also:Winter See also:Exhibition of the Royal Academy. His portrait by himself is in the See also:Tate Gallery. John Pettie, R.A.

(London, 1908), by his See also:

nephew See also:Martin Hardie, gives the See also:story of his See also:life, a See also:catalogue of his pictures, and fifty reproductions in See also:colours.

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