Portrait of Martin Hardie, No. 2
James McBey
1916
Medium
etching in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 26.51 × 18.89 cm (10 7/16 × 7 7/16 in.) sheet: 33.97 × 26.19 cm (13 3/8 × 10 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)
Accession Number
2015.143.148
About the Artist
James McBey
James McBey (1883–1959) was a Scottish artist renowned for his etchings and paintings, emerging from humble beginnings in Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, as the illegitimate son of a blacksmith's daughter. Largely self-taught, he left school at fifteen to work as a bank clerk in Aberdeen, where he devoured art books from the public library and attended evening classes at Gray's School of Art to hone his ...