Title

Highland Mary, 1857. Creator: Thomas Faed.

Caption

Highland Mary, 1857. In this picture, Faed may have been recalling Robert Burns' account of his rendezvous with Mary, the poet's lover who died of fever. Burns' heroine is portrayed wearing a patchwork bag and fashionable pink jacket. Her face is fresh, her gestures open and relaxed. She lifts her skirts up out of the water, revealing their delicate blue lining that echoes the colour of her simple bonnet.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM26A04_258

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

33.2Mo (1.4Mo) / 24.6cm x 33.9cm / 2905 x 4000 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors portrait hillside hill hills female women woman people curiosity curious music sitting arts painting mountain mountains country dark model art complexion rose clothes British museum geography headdress color Scotland dress darkness location SCOTTISH Victorian century gallery Britain coat inquisitive jacket sewing NEEDLEWORK clothing concept seated APPAREL looking at camera one person patchwork heroine mountainside art gallery head dress oil Painting Colour Realism 19th century ballad Realist nineteenth century Scots 1850s artistic movement geographical feature Oil on canvas rosy-cheeked outside direct gaze Highland Mary pink portrait oil young women young woman Mary Thomas Faed Campbell Robert Burns Burns Robbie Burns Robert rosy cheeks Faed Thomas Oil on canvas Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum art centre Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums artist's model 1857 art movement Heritage Art Rabbie Burns Bard of Ayrshire Ploughman Poet artist's mistress 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing Aberdeen Archives T. Faed Mary Campbell Highland Mary Margaret Campbell