The Skating Minister by Henry Raeburn Art Print
The Skating Minister by Henry Raeburn Art Print
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A minister in black, arms folded, gliding across the ice on one leg as if it cost him nothing. It did not: fellow skaters would have recognised the pose as a difficult figure, performed with the composure of a man who learned on frozen Dutch canals.
The Reverend Robert Walker belonged to the Edinburgh Skating Society, by some accounts the first figure-skating club in the world, and sat for this small canvas around 1795. It stayed in his family and was almost unknown until the gallery bought it in 1949 for £525. Since then it has become the most reproduced painting in Scotland, and the subject of a real and still-unresolved argument: in 2005 a curator proposed that it was painted not by Raeburn but by the French émigré Henri-Pierre Danloux. The gallery still catalogues it as Raeburn, and says so with an open mind.
The original hangs in the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.
Printed to order on heavyweight archival paper with a narrow white border that keeps the painting's own proportions. Framed in black, wood or white, or unframed for your own frame. Shipped free worldwide.
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- Unframed in 20 × 25 cm, 40 × 50 cm and 60 × 80 cm; framed in black, wood or white at every size
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Paper. Archival matte paper, 250gsm (110lb), acid-free and FSC-certified — off-white and uncoated. Printed with archival pigment inks for colour that holds for decades.
Frames. Framed prints come in black, white or wood: solid oak or ash, 20mm thick, with shatterproof protective glazing. Ready to hang, hanging kit included.
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