Sir Henry Raeburn, 1801 - William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835) - fine art print

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In late March and early April 1801, the seventeen-year old son of Edward Satchwell Fraser and Jane Fraser of Reelig traveled to Edinburgh from his family home in Inverness-shire en route to London. It was the first of William Fraser’s numerous visits to the studio of Sir Henry Raeburn, where this dashing portrait was painted. The finished portrait was dispatched to the family dining room in northern Scotland while its sitter was relocated to Delhi as a colonial servant of the East India Company. William fell under the Mughal spell, fathering numerous children from his harem of five or six Muslim and Hindu wives. He never returned to Scotland, for he was assassinated while commissioner of Delhi in 1835.

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The over 210 year-old work of art with the title William Fraser of Reelig (1784–1835) was made by the rococo master Sir Henry Raeburn. The original of the piece of art measures the size: 29 1/2 x 24 1/2 in (74,9 x 62,2 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the artist as the medium of the artpiece. Moveover, this artwork can be viewed in in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital collection. This modern art public domain piece of art is included with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. The creditline of the artpiece is: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with an aspect ratio of 1 : 1.2, which implies that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The painter Sir Henry Raeburn was an artist from Scotland, whose art style can mainly be classified as Rococo. The European painter lived for a total of 67 years, born in the year 1756 and deceased in 1823.

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