https://youtube/watch?v=IRYUyHggUNE Edinburgh Reads: Van Goghs Twin - Part II Author, lecturer and curator, Frances Fowle, visited us to talk about the remarkable life of Alexander Reid. Not only was Reid a friend of Vincent and Theo Van Gogh -- bizarrely, he looked so like the former that until recently a portait of Reid by Vincent Van Gogh was thought to be a self-portrait! Frances explained how Reid influenced Scottish taste to encompass the French impressionists and set the scene for the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists to be popular artists in their own country. His career almost exactly spanned the years of the Victorian industrial revolution to the depression of the thirties, offering a peak buying time for the mercantile classes of Scotland. #vangogh #alexanderreid #portrait #francesfowle #part2
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:32:16 +0000
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