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John Charles Heriot

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Date:

1816

Reference:

Box number: MIN-052

Type of material:

Art

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Item ID number:

2964389

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John Charles Heriot
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Date(s):

1816

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 painting / peinture : watercolour, gouache with gum arabic on ivory
Support 7.600 x 5.900 cm
Platemark 13.400 x 11.200 cm

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This portrait miniature is of the sitter John Charles Heriot (ca. 1795-1825) who according to the Heriot family tree (copy on the George Heriot artist file) was in the Honourable East India Company's service; he was the son of John, the brother of the artist George Heriot, and the grandfather of John Charles Alison Heriot of Montreal Canada from whose Estate this miniature has come, It has been suggested that the illegible name is: Heriot, however the mother of the sitter was named Alison Sheriff according to the family tree, possibly inidcating that the artist was an aunt on the mother's side who carried the name Alison somehow, There are 2 miniature painters active late 18th and early 19th centuries in England and exhibiting with the name Allison (with double letter l) with initials F and W; it has been noted that W painted 2 miniatures of boys described as "correctly drawn, but uninspiring and rather crudely executed" and W is also referred to as "him" (Foskett) [this miniature could be described as crudely executed]; another artist named Miss M. Alison (one l), is recorded as a painter (not miniaturist) and worked later in the 1860s and 1870s [see artist file], The miniature is in a black wooden frame. The sitter was a nephew of George Heriot.

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Artist: Alison, Miss, ca. 1816

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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: Inscribed in faded brown ink on card glued to frame backing: Miniature Portrait / on Ivory. / of J.C. Heriot previous / to his departure for India / as a cadet, in the Hon.ble / East India Company's / Service. Drawn by his / Aunt Miss Heriot [?] Alison / of Edinburgh / year 1816.

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C-112035 : recto support
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Portraits

Miniature

SUBJ. - Portrait : Miniature Portrait of John Charles Heriot (1795-1825) - 1816
Source:

Private

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1979-082 PIC
00001
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Restricted. Document requires special handling because of fragility. No restrictions on use for reproduction or publication

Box [1979-082]

[Consultation 90 Open]

MIN-052 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1979-082]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-112035 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1979-82-1 Source: Mr. J.C.A. Heriot Estate; Mr. W. Lewis Day, Hudson, Québec, C-112035
Copyright: Expired

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