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Archival print, framed and hung — a styled render, not the exact frame shipped.
Portraits, the Grand Match, and the Clubhouse Wall · Portraits of the Company
Old Tom Morris on St Andrews Links
Scottish School, c. 1900 · oil on canvas
What it is
Old Tom Morris in oils, standing on the links he tended for forty years — a small painting of a large institution.
Why it matters
The clubhouse portrait tradition applied to a working greenkeeper: the game promoting its own servant to its own saint.
What to notice
The ground gets as much canvas as the man — the painter knew which was the monument.
Tend the ground and the game tends you.
Provenance
- Maker
- Scottish School, c. 1900
- Era
- The Gutty (1848–1900)
- Chapter
- The Golden Age
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1900
- Figure
- Old Tom Morris
- Course
- St Andrews (historical-document doctrine)
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (public domain; formerly Bonhams)
Publicity
Clear — a long-deceased figure with no post-mortem right of publicity in play. Sold as history, freely and openly.
Historical document
This is a period artefact that names its own ground. The place-name appears here as the historical record shows it — never as a house mark, a keyword, or an endorsement, and never pre-populated anywhere in this shop.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution doesn't clear our floor for a physical print, so this piece is offered as a digital download only.
Size
$29.00
