David Scott, RSA (British, 1806-1849)


Study for The Descent from the Cross signed 'DAVID SCOTT. P' (lower left)oil on card, laid to board, painted arch49 x 41.5cm (19 5/16 x 16 5/16in).
|ProvenanceJames McIntosh Patrick.Sale, Christie's Glasgow, The James McIntosh Patrick Collection, 26 September, lot 260The Fine Art Society, London.The Forbes Collection.Sale, Christie's London, The Forbes Collection, 20 February, 2003, lot 302Purchased from the above by the present owner.LiteratureC. Forbes,'Images of Christ in the Nineteenth-Century: British Paintings in the Forbes Magazine Collection' Antiques, December 2001, vol. clx, no 6., p.801, illus p.800.The present lot is one of two studies for the alterpiece of St Patrick's Chapel in Lothian Street, Edinburgh; while the alterpiece no longer exists, the similar study is in the collection of the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.