Photograph from Lauriston Castle Photograph Album

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

52476

Title

Photograph from an album compiled by Mr. and Mrs. Reid, the last residents of Lauriston Castle, possibly of artist Christina Patterson Ross in her studio

Description

A sepia photograph from an album of photographs compiled by Margaret Reid, nee Barton, last resident of Lauriston Castle. It shows a woman artist at her easel in her studio. She is wearing a full, long dark dress. She is working at her easel, with a low table beside her with paints and a glass of water. The room around her is furnished with other works and frames.

Accession number

LC565K-004

Copyright

The City of Edinburgh Council Museums & Galleries

This photograph is from an album of photographs compiled, and likely to have been taken by, Mrs. Margaret Reid, nee Barton, the last resident of Lauriston Castle. She and her husband William Reid bequeathed the Castle and its contents to the nation, and it became a museum in the late 1920s.

Margaret Reid was a keen photographer, and some of the images in this album seem to be her associations with other artists in Edinburgh from before she married. Helen Edwards, Applied Art Curator at Museums & Galleries Edinburgh spotted some of the interiors of what seem to be an artist's studio in work by the painter Christina Patterson Ross. She undertook some research which case a light on the images in the album. You can read more about this detective work here .

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Photograph from Lauriston Castle photograph album