Country of origin: Canada
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signed: Signed lower right / original artists label verso
Dated: c. 1895
Condition: Very good original condition
Size: 22.00" x 32.00" (55.9cm x 81.3cm)
Framed Size: 29.00" x 39.00" (73.7cm x 99.1cm)
Provenance: Private french collection / E. Blanchet - Paris
c. 1910
Oil on panel
£28,000.00
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Appareilleurs
by Maximilien Luce
1902
Oil on panel
£2,450.00
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The Artist’s Garden
by Marie Duhem
1909
Oil on panel
£3,300.00
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The Artists Garden
by Henri Duhem
1955
Oil on original canvas
£16,500.00
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Salon des arts menagers – 1955
by Jacques Martin-Ferrieres
1910
Oil on board
£11,200.00
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Fillette à la poussette
by Victor Charreton
1881
Oil on canvas
£79,500.00
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Le peintre en plein air
by Charles Theophile Angrand
1924
Oil on paper laid on panel
£5,950.00
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Dimanche
by Paul Elie Gernez
1932
Oil on board
£6,500.00
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Evening in Paris
by Louis Hayet
c. 1900
Oil on panel
£2,550.00
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Pierrot aux bonnet noir
by Armand Francois Henrion
1918
Oil on original canvas
£51,000.00
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Portrait of a Girl
by Alfredo Guttero
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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The Great War – Soldier & horse on a road
by Andre Devambez
1915
Oil on panel
£2,650.00
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Le Café de la Place Blanche
by Elie Anatole Pavil
Between 1880 and 1884, Macpherson studied in Switzerland, under the artist Auguste-Henri Berthoud. In 1885, she returned to Edinburgh and exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy for the first time. Macpherson began to exhibit her work at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts from 1887 onwards.
In 1889, Macpherson moved to Paris. Once there, she trained under Gustave Courtois and Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret at the Academie Colarossi. Whilst in France, Macpherson also worked at the artists' colony of Concarneau during 1891, where she began to specialise in paintings of girls in traditional Breton costume.
Macpherson was dividing her time between France and Scotland, where she had a successful career as a portrait painter. She shared a studio in Edinburgh with another artist, Josephine Hoxie Bartlett. Macpherson and Bartlett became members of the Society of Scottish Artists in 1892.Macpherson and Bartlett had a joint exhibition in Edinburgh in 1895. They moved permanently to Paris in 1899.
Throughout her career the following art societies all accepted paintings by Macpherson:
Royal Scottish Academy
Glasgow Institute of Fine Art
Society of Scottish Artists
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts
Royal Academy, London
Société des Artistes Français
Awards
Bronze medal - Exposition universelle, Paris, in 1900
Gold medal - Exposition nationale, Reims, in 1903
Gold medal - Exposition internationale, Nantes, in 1904
1891
Oil on canvas
SOLD
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Gathering Apples in an Orchard – Brittany
by Margaret Campbell Macpherson - SOLD
1895
Oil on canvas
SOLD
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Spring – Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
by Margaret Campbell Macpherson - SOLD
1888
Oil on panel
SOLD
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The Red Umbrella – Sannox, Arran
by Margaret Campbell Macpherson - SOLD