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| Artist | Elizabeth Blackadder (Born 1931) |
| Title | Bullfighter |
| Date | 1960/1961 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Provenance | Edinburgh, Aitken Dott & Son; Robert Fleming Holdings Limited |
| Exhibition | Aitken, Dott, Edinburgh 1961 (?); Edinburgh, Society of Scottish Artists (date?); Odette Gilbert Gallery 10-11/1986 |
| Dimensions | height: 55.00 cm, width: 82.50 cm |
| Inscription | br: E.V.BLACKADDER |
| Acquisition | Purchased from Christie's Red Cross Auction, September 1996 |
| Location | Luxembourg, Luxembourg, British Embassy |
| GAC number | 17000 |
Other works by this artist
 | The Yellow Chest | Oil on canvas 1968 GAC 12054 |
 | Japanese Flowers Still Life | Oil on canvas 1969 GAC 12186 |
 | Cat in a Garden | Watercolour on paper 1977 GAC 13863 |
 | Eastern Still Life | Wool tapestry GAC 15238 |
 | Runswick Bay | Watercolour on paper 1962 GAC 6168 |
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This work contains the following subjects; choose a subject below to cross-refer to other works in the collection:
Similar works by subject:
genre
 | Sacred Conversation between St.Felix de Valois and... | Oil on canvas GAC 0/45 |
 | The Valley of Mexico | Oil on canvas 1837 GAC 0/55 |
 | Brazilian Scene: A Sugar Mill | Oil on panel c.1665 GAC 0/61 |
 | Brazilian Scene | Oil on canvas c.1665 GAC 0/62 |
 | River Landscape | Oil on canvas GAC 0/63 |
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This work contains the following places; choose a place below to cross-refer to other works in the collection:
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Spain
 | Runway, Gibraltar 1944 | Watercolour on paper 1944 GAC 96 |
 | Training Divers at Rosia Bay, Gibraltar, 1944 | Watercolour on paper 1944 GAC 165 |
 | Gibraltar, 1944 | Watercolour on paper 1944 GAC 192 |
 | Examination Station, Rosia Bay, Gibraltar, 1944 | Watercolour on paper 1944 GAC 199 |
 | Battle of the Pyrenees, 28 July 1813 | Colour aquatint published 4 June 1836 GAC 886 |
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Dame Elizabeth Blackadder was born in Falkirk, Scotland, and studied at Edinburgh University and Edinburgh College of Art from 1949 until 1954. In 1954 she was awarded a Carnegie Travelling Scholarship, which enabled her to visit Yugoslavia, Greece and Italy, where she was impressed by the Byzantine architecture and mosaics she saw. In 1956 she married the artist John Houston. Blackadder was the first woman to be elected as a full member of both the Royal Scottish Academy in 1972 and the Royal Academy in 1976. She was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 1982. She shows her work regularly at the Mercury Gallery in London. She lives and works in Edinburgh.