Lifting Potatoes

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Hugh Cameron
Born Edinburgh, 1835-1918

Lifting Potatoes
Oil on canvas

Presented by the Orchar Trustees, 1987
Original Orchar Collection
Museum number 272-1987-40

Cameron's favourite subjects were rural scenes of childhood or old age. His love of colour and free brushwork marks him out as a pupil of Robert Scott Lauder but his subject matter shows the strong influence of the French realist painters Corot and Millet.