Portrait of a Scottish Officer Gold Silver & Bronze and he does this consistently

and he does this consistently

There is an ancient label on the back that simply say ‘Major Ramsay’

This painting is based on one of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories

Eventually settling in California

have made a lasting and indelible mark on me

Portrait of a Scottish Officer Gold Silver & Bronze and he does this consistentlyThis rather haunted portrait of an officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders is likely to have been painted on a return visit from Poland. Signed and dated 1915, this man must have already experienced the senseless attrition of trench warfare. It is a small scale canvas and although the sitter is in uniform it has an informality about it that suggests a window of opportunity grasped. Perhaps he is about to go back to the front and his wife,