{"id":1226,"date":"2015-03-16T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T21:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2015-03-16T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T21:00:12","slug":"yet-more-on-gow-likenesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2015\/03\/16\/yet-more-on-gow-likenesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet more on Gow likenesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may be\u00a0yet another portrait of Niel:\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1227\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Gow-Portrait-Advert.jpg\" alt=\"Gow-Portrait-Advert\" width=\"418\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Gow-Portrait-Advert.jpg 418w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Gow-Portrait-Advert-300x128.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Gow-Portrait-Advert-24x10.jpg 24w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Gow-Portrait-Advert-36x15.jpg 36w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Gow-Portrait-Advert-48x20.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dundee Advertiser 11 May 1882 p. 1<\/p>\n<p>William Smellie Watson (1796-1874) was a decent portraitist based in Edinburgh and I suspect he\u00a0would not have wished to copy the famous work by Raeburn, who had been\u00a0a rival of his father George\u00a0Watson (1767-1837). I have found\u00a0no listing of this portrait.<\/p>\n<p>And what of this pair of portraits, father and son?:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1228\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Gow-Portraits-Dundee.jpg\" alt=\"Gow-Portraits-Dundee\" width=\"387\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Gow-Portraits-Dundee.jpg 387w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Gow-Portraits-Dundee-300x248.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Gow-Portraits-Dundee-361x300.jpg 361w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Gow-Portraits-Dundee-24x19.jpg 24w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Gow-Portraits-Dundee-36x29.jpg 36w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Gow-Portraits-Dundee-48x39.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dundee Courier 21 December 1872 p. 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be\u00a0yet another portrait of Niel:\u00a0 Dundee Advertiser 11 May 1882 p. 1 William Smellie Watson (1796-1874) was a decent portraitist based in Edinburgh and I suspect he\u00a0would not have wished to copy the famous work by Raeburn, who &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2015\/03\/16\/yet-more-on-gow-likenesses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}