Monday, September 13, 2010

Gourlay Steell - A Moroccan Goat Herd



1819-1894.

Price Realized £8,126

indistinctly signed '....Steell' (lower left)
oil on canvas
15 x 20 in. (38.2 x 50.8 cm.)

The son of an engraver, Gourlay Steell studied at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh under Robert Scott Lauder, and exhibited for many years at the Royal Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy, of which he became a full member in 1859. Queen Victoria appointed him her 'Animal Painter for Scotland' on the death of Landseer in 1873.

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