"One of the '45" · At the 1884 Whitechapel Exhibition

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Title: "One of the '45"
Actual Title: Disbanded
Artist: John Pettie
Artist Full Name: John Pettie (1839-1893)
Status: R. A.
Date (Painted or Exhibited): 1877
Type: oil on canvas
Size (HxW mm): 945 x 673
Current Location: The McManus, Dundee / Dundee Art Galleries and Museums / Bridgeman Images: DNE6200824
Lent By: Humphrey Roberts, Esq.
Catalog Number: 83
Catalog Page: 13
Catalog Description: The friends of the Stuarts rose against the Georges in 1745. This portrait shows how, to some, it was a hard duty to fight against fellow-countrymen, and how full of danger the fight was.
Alt-Text: A young, barefoot man with tousled hair, draped in a tartan cloth, stands in a dim cave holding a sword. He looks alert and wary, pressing against a rocky wall as if hiding or eavesdropping.
Image Credit: Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection (Dundee City Council) / Bridgeman Images. Shared with permission from Bridgeman Education under fair use.