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George Jamesone portrait exhibition
Running for the duration of the festival this exhibition will examine the life, times career and legacy of George Jamesone, Scotland's first indigenous portrait painter and famous son of Aberdeen. Virtually the only 17th – century Scottish painter about whom anything is known, he made a name for himself painting local academics and scholars before becoming a court painter and rising to national fame. His legacy for Aberdeen is that his paintings are the earliest painted representation of Aberdonians that survive to this day whilst he was the first to paint the portrait of a serving Lord Provost of Aberdeen, a tradition which continues today.
Part of the Being Human festival of arts and humanities. For more information on the festival please see:
- Venue
- Aberdeen Maritime Museum
- Contact
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Aberdeen Maritime Museum 01224 337700