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Paintings/
Studies for Raeburn

<sup>Study for Raeburn 56 (with portrait removed), oil on paper, 24 x 15.5 cm. Private collection



Study for Raeburn 47 (with portrait removed), oil on paper, 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Private collection



Study for Raeburn 37 (with portrait removed), oil on paper, 26 x 18.5 cm. Private collection



Study for Raeburn 52 (with portrait removed), 
oil on paper, 24 x 15.5 cm. Private collection



Study for Raeburn 10 (with portrait removed), oil on paper. Private collection



Study for Raeburn 42 (with portrait removed), oil on paper, 19.5 x 13 cm.  Private collection



Study for Raeburn 57 (with portrait removed), oil on paper, 24 x 15.5cm



Study for Raeburn 45 (with portrait removed), oil on paper, 24 x 15.5cm. Private collection



 Study for Raeburn 12 (with portrait removed), oil on paper, 26 x 18.5 cm. Private collection



Study for Raeburn 11 (with portrait removed), oil on paper, 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Private collection



Study for Raeburn 46 (with portrait removed), oil on paper, 24 x 15.5 cm. Private collection



Study for Raeburn 8 (with portrait removed), oil on paper, 24.5 x 16 cm. Private collection



Study for Raeburn 18 (with portrait removed), oil on card, 30 x 23 cm. Private collection


     
Study for Raeburn 43 (with portrait removed), oil on paper, 15.5 x 10 cm</sup> 

Studies for Raeburn is an ongoing series of paintings composed from the landscape backgrounds of the portraits of Henry Raeburn (1756-1823). Landscapes he imagined from his studio¹  were only allowed ‘to peep from behind his patron’s elbow.’² Studies for Raeburn are fragments of imaginary landscapes annexed from his paintings, but suggestive of somewhere, however indistinct. 

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^{1 One exception is a landscape painted to serve as a background for a picture of John Chrichton Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, which was based on a sketch made for Raeburn by the factor of the estate. – Raeburn: The Art of Sir Henry Raeburn 1756-1823 (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1997) 
2 John Tonge, The Arts of Scotland (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, 1938, p.76)}