Alexander S. Buchanan 1900-10Watercolour Portrait

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We are delighted to offer this wonderful portrait study of an elderly bearded gentleman by the artist ALEXANDER STRAHAN BUCHANAN, who has signed the painting A.S.Buchanan in the lower right hand corner. This is a masterful work by this accomplished artist, who exhibited at the Royal Academy six times. The characterisation is superb!

ALEXANDER STRAHAN BUCHANAN, was a London figure painter, who exhibited between 1902 and 1914 and lived in Southgate and then Palmers Green in London. He appears to have founded a family of painters, as his son Alexander Norman Buchanan (1910-2002) was a listed artist, who married Constance Parrish, also an artist. His daughter Lillian L. Buchanan, was an illustrator and there is also a George Buchanan, who was born in 1948 and was probably a grandson.

There was a studio sale or 70 lots of work by the various family members in 2005, probably after the death of Alexander Norman Buchanan, where several paintings by Alexander Strahan were sold, most reaching several hundred pounds.

He is listed in the Dictionary of British Artists and has sales listed on artprice.com (11 listings) and findartinfo.com (5 listings). Although he also painted some landscapes, his figure paintings and portraits were his best work. There were recently 18 paintings and drawings listed on Ebay by this artist, the portraits being priced at £495.00.

The painting has been newly double mounted in two tone to complement and is newly framed in a 2 1/4" black and gilt frame that suits it very well.

Medium Watercolours
PriceSOLD DimensionsImage size 13 1/2" x 10" 34.25cm x 25.4cm Frame size 22 1/2" x 18" 57.15cm x 45.7cm Category Antique Pictures / Engravings / Art > Antique Watercolours Period Edwardian Antiques Material Paper Origin English Condition Very good. There is some faint foxing which is visible on our supersize photographs and a faint pale blemish less than 1/4" long about 3" down from the top left hand edge. None of the above detract when the painting is hung. The frame is new. Item code as237a236 Status Sold

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