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Lot 46AR

John Duncan Fergusson RBA
(British, 1874-1961)
Boys at the High School, Edinburgh 50 x 42.5 cm. (20 x 16 3/4 in.)

13 May 2021, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh

Sold for £4,462.50 inc. premium

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John Duncan Fergusson RBA (British, 1874-1961)

Boys at the High School, Edinburgh
watercolour
50 x 42.5 cm. (20 x 16 3/4 in.)
Executed circa 1887-90

Footnotes

Provenance
With The Fine Art Society, London, October 1974.

Exhibited
Centenary Exhibition, London, Glasgow Art Gallery and Edinburgh.

This is the earliest known work by Fergusson, who said that he painted it whilst still a pupil at The Royal High School, Edinburgh. The boys depicted were some of his school friends.

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