Work Underway on the Reverend Reid Case Study

We are delighted to be underway with the first of our case studies for the PISTACHIO project.

Colour photograph showing Christina Young, principal investigator of the PISTACHIO project, at work during an analytical study of portraits attributed to Raeburn — At work in the lab during an analytical study of two portraits of the Rev Thomas Reid, one from the Hunterian collection and the other from a private collection

The focus of this case study is on two paintings of Reverend Thomas Reid (1710–1796), Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. One of these paintings is from the collection of the Hunterian Art Gallery, whilst the other is from a private collection.

Our initial work combines the use of stereomicroscopy, UV photography and portable XRF to investigate the techniques and materials used in each of the paintings.