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| A Hind's Daughter |
The small girl has just straightened up after cutting a cabbage and looks directly at the viewer. Girl and landscape seem inextricably merged in this essentially Scottish scene. A hind was a skilled farm labourer, and cabbage (or kail) a staple diet of Scottish hinds and their families. Guthrie painted the picture in the Berwickshire village of Cockburnspath, where he opted to stay during the winter, unlike his Glasgow friends who returned to the city at the end of the summer. The warm earth colours and distinctive square brush strokes confirm the profound impact Bastien-Lepage's painting made on Guthrie.
Title: A Hind's Daughter
Accession number: NG 2142
Artist:Sir James GuthrieScottish (1859 - 1930)
Gallery:In Storage
Object type:Painting
Subject:Parks and gardens Glasgow Boys
Glossary:Glasgow Boys
Materials:
Oil on canvas
Date created: 1883
Measurements: 91.50 x 76.20 cm (framed: 105.50 x 90.40 x 6.80 cm)
Credit line: Bequest of Sir James Lewis Caw 1951
Photographer: Antonia Reeve
Location : National Galleries Scotland
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