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Important Works from the Najd Collection, Part II
Important Works from the Najd Collection, Part II
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JOHN ADAM HOUSTON, R.S.A., R.I.
British
1812-1884
THE SHEIKH
titled, signed and inscribed on a label attached to the reverse: John A Houston R.A./ 10 Upper Phillimore Place. Kensington.
oil on canvas
62 by 46cm., 24½ by 18in.
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Sale: Christie's, London, 18 February 1983, lot 37
Mathaf Gallery, London
Purchased from the above
Caroline Juler, Najd Collection of Orientalist Paintings, London, 1991, p. 175, catalogued & illustrated
London, Royal Academy, 1875 no. 1163
John Adam Houston was born in 1812 in North Wales to Scottish parents. In the late 1820s, he studied in Edinburgh under Sir William Allan and was greatly influenced by Sir David Wilkie, one of the great figures of Scottish painting in the early nineteenth century. Houston's style incorporates the gusto and richness of the Scottish Realist school with contrasting warm colours and deep areas of shadow. He specialised in historical and genre painting and regularly exhibited in London and Edinburgh, including An Arab (1847) and An Incident in the Desert (1854).
