Lot 1055: John Myles (British, fl 1850-1873) Portrait of an Edinburgh City Officer 47 x 37.8 cm. (18 1/2 x 14 7/8 in.)

Portrait of an Edinburgh City Officer
signed 'J Myles Painter' (lower right)
oil on board
47 x 37.8 cm. (18 1/2 x 14 7/8 in.)

PROVENANCE:
Sale; Christie's, New York, 4th April 2007, lot 126

This may have been the picture exhibited as a 'City Officer' at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, in 1851 (no. 282).

Little is known about the Edinburgh-based artist John Myles, who exhibited his paintings - portraits, landscape and genre scenes - at the Royal Scottish Academy between 1850 and 1873.