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Portrait of Seona Reid (Director of Glasgow School of Art, 1999-2013). Image taken with world's largest polaroid camera.

Portrait of Sadie McLellan from the chest up with her head tilted to her left. Hair is in an up do and she wears an embroidered patterned traditional ethnic top with puffy white long sleeves and a metal button up wool waistcoat over top. "Sadie McLellan / about 1938" verso.

Portrait photograph of Francis Newbery as an elderly man. The cardboard displays an inscription.

Originally located within (Box 2 of 2).

Black and white portrait photograph. Believed to be Sydney d'Horne Shepherd, wearing a white dress shirt, light coloured tie, and darker coloured suit jacket. A stamp reads "Howard Coster, / Photographer of Men, / 9, Sackville St., Piccadilly, W.1. / Regent 4561.", with an "A" drawn in pencil below it verso.

Mounted photograph of William McCance in front of two of his paintings, plaster cast foot in background.

This collection relates to Jane Richards and her granddaughter Fiona Jean Paton who both studied at The Glasgow School of Art.

It includes:

• An artist’s palette owned by Jane Richards, c1910
• a small box of watercolour paints owned by Jane Richards, early 20th century
• a portrait drawn by Jane Richards, c1908-1910
• a photograph of Jane Richards, c1914-1918
• a photograph of Jane Richards' husband in uniform, c1914-18
• two watercolour landscapes by Jane Richards, 1907 and 1911
• seven prints produced by The Dux Engraving Co Ltd, early 20th century
• two portraits drawn by Robert Eadie, c1909
• three sketchbooks for product design furniture by Fiona Jean Paton, early 1980s
• eight photographs and eleven slides relating to product design furniture, early 1980s.

Please note that this material is not yet fully catalogued and therefore some items may not be accessible to researchers.

One item was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014 and was conserved in 2018-19.