| 词条 | James Rannie Swinton |
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| name = James Rannie Swinton | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1816|4|11}} | birth_place = Berwickshire, Scotland | death_date = {{Death date and age |df=yes|1888|12|18|1816|4|11}} | death_place = Kensington, London | nationality = Scottish | spouse = Blanche Arthur Georgina FitzGerald-de Ross | field = Portrait painting and drawing | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | influenced by = William Allan, John Watson-Gordon, David Wilkie, Francis Grant | influenced = Thomas Fairland, Francis Holl, Richard James Lane, Henry Thomas Ryall, George Raphael Ward, George Zobel | awards = | elected = | website = | bgcolour = }} James Rannie Swinton was a nineteenth-century Scottish portrait artist. Early life and familyBorn into Clan Swinton on 11 April 1816, James Rannie Swinton was the younger son of John Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame, Berwickshire, and Catherine Rannie, his wife, and grandson of Archibald, fourth son of John Swinton of Swinton, Berwickshire. His elder brother, Archibald Campbell Swinton, four years his senior, pursued a career in law and politics,[1] but sisters, Catherine and Elizabeth, shared his interest in art.[2] Education and early careerLike his brother, he was intended for the legal profession, but, having a strong taste for art, he was allowed in 1838 to adopt the profession of an artist. At Edinburgh Sir William Allan and Sir John Watson-Gordon gave him much encouragement, and in the latter's studio he was allowed to work. He studied at the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh, and his first essays in portraiture were made in January 1839. In April of that year he went to London, where he was welcomed by Sir David Wilkie and (Sir) Francis Grant (1803–1878). In 1840 he was admitted to the schools of the Royal Academy, and in the same year went to Italy, where he remained for about three years, also visiting Spain. At Rome he found many sitters, and laid the foundation of his subsequent popularity as a portrayer of the fashionable beauties of his day; among those who sat to him at Rome were the Countess Grosvenor, Lady Canning, the Countess of Dufferin, and Lady Charlotte Bury. Career and worksOn his return to London{{when|date=April 2012}} he settled in Berners Street, and soon assumed the position of the most fashionable portrait-painter of the day. Nearly every fashionable beauty sat to him. His portraits were chiefly life-sized, boldly executed but graceful crayon drawings, although many of them were completed subsequently in oils, and frequently at full-length. A large portrait group of the three beautiful Sheridan Sisters, the Countess of Dufferin, the Hon. Mrs. Norton, and the Duchess of Somerset, which remained in the possession of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava at least until 1885.{{where|date=April 2012}} Swinton also drew and painted the portraits of eminent men with great success, among them being Louis Napoleon (afterwards Napoleon III), Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Canning, Bishop (afterwards Archbishop) Tait (painted in 1860[3]), Lord Dufferin, and others, a full-length of Colonel Probyn (painted in 1867[4] and now in the National Army Museum) being considered especially successful. Swinton exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1844, and his portraits were familiar objects there for thirty years. Swinton was dependent on the vagaries of fashion for his vogue as a portrait-painter, and his portraits quickly lost their repute, although they will always retain their value as historical memorials. Later lifeIn 1859 Swinton commissioned the construction of a lavish three-storey house in Warwick Square in Pimlico including a grand staircase with domed ceiling, ballroom and a huge conservatory with glass roof.[5] He married, on 23 July 1865,[6] Blanche Arthur Georgina (1832–1910),[7] youngest daughter of William FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros, but left no children. Swinton died at his residence in Harrington Gardens, South Kensington, on 18 December 1888.[8] References1. ^{{Cite DNB|wstitle=Swinton, James Rannie}} 2. ^{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k7MW4LajLCcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Lady+Elizabeth+Rigby+Eastlake%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7iaTT9LuC5Dn-gaetPmTBA&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=inauthor%3A%22Lady%20Elizabeth%20Rigby%20Eastlake%22&f=false|title=The Letters of Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake |editor=Julie Sheldon |publisher=Liverpool University Press |year=2009 |page=81 |accessdate=23 April 2012}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=3223456&partid=1&output=People%2f!!%2fOR%2f!!%2f74433%2f!%2f74433-1-6%2f!%2fPortrait+of+Archibald+Campbell+Tait%2c+Archbishop+of+Canterbury%2f!%2f%2f!!%2f%2f!!!%2f&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database%2fadvanced_search.aspx¤tPage=1&numpages=10|title=The Right Honorable, and Right Reverend Archibald Campbell Tait, DCL |publisher=British Museum |accessdate=21 April 2012}}Department: Prints & Drawings, Registration number: 1891,0627.167, Location:British XIXc Unmounted Imp 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://prints.national-army-museum.ac.uk/image/433711/james-rannie-swinton-colonel-probyn-vc-1867|title=Colonel Probyn, CB, VC, and Honorary ADC to the Viceroy of India and HM's Indian Cavalry|accessdate=19 April 2012}} 5. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3349663/50-million-to-buy-top-whack.html |title=£50 million to buy top whack |first=Shiela |last=Prophet |date=4 May 2006|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=19 April 2012}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=k4t000%2F3IXWHlRfQwLWzZQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=21 April 2012|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}} 7. ^{{cite web |url=http://thepeerage.com/p5831.htm#i58309 |title=Hon. Blanche Arthur Georgina FitzGerald-de Ross |accessdate=19 April 2012}} (Burke's Peerage) 8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=Fs%2F3qE0ShbQcHF59X389GQ&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=21 April 2012|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}} Sources
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