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Art on Stamps | Just another WordPress.com weblog Just another WordPress.com weblog Australian Stamp Issued 2002; Painting completed Great Britain stamp issued 1973, Painted c.1815 Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823), the Scottish portrait painter, was born at Stockbridge, Edinburgh, where he was apprenticed to a goldsmith but taught himself to paint miniatures and then extended his practice to oil-painting.  His method was free and vigorous and he was not given to flattery.  Aiming at character, he succeeded in impressing it upon his canvas and excelled in male portraiture.  In 1815, he bacame a full member of the Royal Academy in London where he exhibited his paintings regularly.  He was knighted in 1822 and soon afterwards appointed His Majesty’s Limner for Scotland, but died the following year.
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