Edward Arthur Walton (Scottish, 1860-1922), Portrait of Mrs. Ewan MacPherson

Oil on canvas (lined), signed at lower left, retaining exhibition label to verso, presented in the original carved giltwood frame with artist name stenciled to the verso.

Stretcher size 30 1/4 x 20 in.; Frame dimensions 38 1/4 x 28 1/2 in.

Private Collection, Asheville, North Carolina

Exhibited:
Glasgow Art Club, Glasgow, Scotland

Edward Arthur Walton was a Scottish painter and a central figure among the Glasgow Boys, a group of radical young painters who represented the beginning of modernism in the region, shifting from an academic style to rendering contemporary rural subjects and working en plein air. Walton studied at the Glasgow School of Art and later at the Düsseldorf Academy.

Walton was a successful landscape painter and portraitist. He produced refined and psychologically perceptive likenesses of his sitters. His portraits were celebrated for their elegance, strong characterization, and painterly technique, attracting a notable clientele and earning him exhibitions at institutions such as the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy in London.

The canvas has been lined, with areas of retouching visible under UV light; minor frame losses.