The MacNab | painting by Raeburn (original) (raw)

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  In Sir Henry Raeburn
  1794–95), which foreshadowed The MacNab (c. 1803–13), in which tonalities became darker and lighting more contrasted. In 1812 he was elected president of the Edinburgh Society of Artists, becoming a Royal Academician in 1815. He was knighted in 1822 and shortly thereafter was appointed His Majesty’s Limner for Scotland.
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