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Sir George Bullough (1870–1939), as a Boy

Image credit: Kinloch Castle, Rum (NatureScot)

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In an ornate gilt frame, unattributed, and bearing no date, this three-quarter length portrait of Sir George Bullough (1870–1939) as a young boy is displayed in the Dining Room at Kinloch Castle. Comparison with an 1886 class photograph at Harrow School, when he was 16, indicates, allowing for the Victorian school style and artistic license, his age in this portrait to be nearer 11 or 12 years of age.

The library at Kinloch Castle contains a number of George’s school text books, the pages of which bear testimony to his ‘doodlings’ while supposedly studying Greek and Latin. He was, like many schoolboys, keen on practising his signature, and in the margin of one book there is a neat little drawing of a horse. Both dogs and particularly horses were to be prominent all through George Bullough’s adult life.

Kinloch Castle, Rum (NatureScot)

Isle of Rum

Title

Sir George Bullough (1870–1939), as a Boy

Date

c.1882

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 74 x W 62.2 cm

Accession number

4426

Acquisition method

purchased as part of the Bullough Estate, 1957

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

signed

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Kinloch Castle, Rum (NatureScot)

Isle of Rum, Highland PH43 4RR Scotland

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