Life Association of Scotland, Michael Brown, Perfection Bunker, North Berwick
Life Association of Scotland, Michael Brown, Perfection Bunker, North Berwick
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Michael Brown Life Association Golf Photogravure North Berwick - Perfection Bunker.
A golf photogravure after Michael Brown: North Berwick - Perfection Bunker, from his famous series of scenes commissioned by the Life Association of Scotland for their calendars. This image featured on their 1910 calendar and has Ben Sayers, Mr. J. E. Laidlay, Mr. Robert Maxwell (Amateur Champion 1909) and Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour, M.P. (later Prime Minister of the UK). It captures an iconic golfing landscape, the 14th hole at North Berwick, Perfection Bunker, with Bass Rock in the far background on the left and the town and club to the right. Framed in period oak frame. new mount.
Frame size:- 43 cm high by 57 cm wide.
The Life Association of Scotland was established in 1838 in Edinburgh. In the late 1800's golf courses were being established all over Scotland and the financial community set up the Insurance & Banking Golf Club on the Duddingston estate in 1895, beneath the spectacular backdrop of the extinct volcano, Arthur's Seat. To mark the opening of the extended Club House, Michael Brown was commissioned to paint a scene from an exhibition golf match at the Club. The 1899 Life Association of Scotland calendar used this image as its center piece. It was such a marketing success Brown was then commissioned to annually paint a golfing picture until 1916, prints were made of these originals and glued to the cardboard calendar that the Life Association of Scotland produced. Brown's original paintings adorned the walls of the Edinburgh head office for many years.
Dimensions:
1900-1949
Circa 1910
Photogravure
United Kingdom
Photogravure in good condition, very slight foxing to the center of the picture.
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 and Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour, M.P. (later Prime Minister of the UK). It captures an iconic golfing landscape, the 14th hole at North Berwick, Perfection Bunker, with Bass Rock in the far background on the left and the town and club to the right. Framed in period oak frame. new mount.Frame size:- 43 cm high by 57 cm wide.The Life Association of Scotland was established in 1838 in Edinburgh. In the late 1800's golf courses were being established all over Scotland and the financial community set up the Insurance & Banking Golf Club on the Duddingston estate in 1895, beneath the spectacular backdrop of the extinct volcano, Arthur's Seat. To mark the opening of the extended Club House, Michael Brown was commissioned to paint a scene from an exhibition golf match at the Club. The 1899 Life Association of Scotland calendar used this image as its center piece. It was such a marketing success Brown was then commissioned to annually paint a golfing picture until 1916, prints were made of these originals and glued to the cardboard calendar that the Life Association of Scotland produced. Brown's original paintings adorned the walls of the Edinburgh head office for many years.){kind=link}