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“Twilight” |
"For Agnes" |
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Portrait of a Girl, at left, changed hands at auction in 2006; the new owner kindly sent me this photograph! It has been identified as a portrait of Nancy Hunter, daughter-in-law of my maternal Great Auntie Kate Sayers Hunter. Nancy Hunter is the subject of several of Bob's portraits, including "The Senorita" owned by the Perth Art Gallery, and these two owned by my mother: |
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Portrait of Agnes Sivell
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A very glamorous portrait of Molly Sayers, one of the artist's sisters-in-law |
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The images of these two portraits of Kenneth O. Dike are available for reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). |
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Portrait of Baby Elspeth (Mother) My mother as a baby in a rougher sketch |
Nurse
Violet Eleanor Reid, G.M. |
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This
portrait is of a MysteryWoman is
on the reverse of a board with the oil sketch of my mother (reading, sick
in bed as a child shown above). She may be one of the Morton family from
Craigie Hall, near Edinburgh. |
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Watercolor Landscape of an unknown location. It is signed (unusual for Bob) and has 1907 painted into the left hand corner. Bob was 19 in 1907. | Bob's parents, Robert Sivell & Agnes Wylie Sivell |
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At left is new, high quality photo courtesy of Aberdeen Art Gallery (thank you!) of this large, well restored family portrait of Bob's immediate family. The artist is in the picture, but with his back turned toward to us and the family group. At one time the painting was cut in half for convenient storage...
it is now in the good care of Aberdeen
Art Gallery.
The painting ‘Family Group’ by Robert Sivell RSA, dated 1919, includes, left to right: Margaret, Agnes (Jr), Robert, Henrietta, Robert Sivell (Sr), Agnes Wylie Sivell, and John.
These fully rendered & finished portraits of his parents may have been studies for this large work. |
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Was for sale December, 2013 on Ebay! |
A portrait of Sam Hunter. I think this is the younger Sam, Bob's nephew by marriage, rather than his brother-in-law of the same name. Kate Sayers, my great aunt, married Sam Hunter, and I believe they had twin boys. Their are references to a painting of the twins, but I don't have an image or know what happened to this painting. |
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Spring possibly a study (or a sales pitch?) for the Sivell's Pub murals, shows more detail & finish than the mural. Benno Scholtz mentions Bob's concern that murals might not be valued & protected, so he made paintings of key portions of his scenes. The actual murals are on all four walls of a large room. |
It is great to know that the Aberdeen student union murals have been retained over the years, and sufficiently valued to be cleaned and restored. They seem to be appreciated still: although the student union has recently sold this downtown property, it seems the murals are to be protected due to the historic interest. |
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A closeup from the mural wall at left. |
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