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339 - Frederic Whiting,
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Frederic Whiting, British 1874-1962- Portrait of Brigadier Hartley Maconochie, seated half-length, wearing uniform; oil on canvas, signed 'Frederic Whiting' (upper left), 91.1 x 76 cm. (unframed). ARR. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: Whiting studied at St John's School of Art, the Royal Academy Schools, and the Académie Julian in Paris, before going on to teach at the Heatherley School of Fine Art, alongside Iain Macnab (1890-1967) and Bernard Adams (1884-1965). He also worked as a war correspondent for the Graphic newspaper, where he covered the Russo-Japanese War, amongst other events. He was a prolific artist who was celebrated for his dignified portraits, often depicting military figures in their uniform, as in the present work, and in a number of paintings in the Imperial War Museum [IWM ART 3056; IWM ART 2000].
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