Henry Raeburn´s Portraits of Distant Sons in the Global British Empire

• Autores: Viccy Coltman
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 95, Nº 2, 2013, págs. 294-311
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Henry Raeburn, a major late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British artist, has received insufficient critical scrutiny. His little-known group of portraits of the Fraser family of Reelig is dominated by representations of the adolescent male sons. In the context of this Scottish Highland family’s temporal and geographic dislocation around the British Empire, these portraits were both present and prescient. As a fundamental expectation of portraiture, likeness was the dominant affective category in the lived reality of the British Empire.