3-080-242 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

John Hay, c1896. John Hay formed his first partnership with the photographer George Washington Wilson, although this slowly dissolved and Hay co-founded the frame-making firm Hay and Lyall, picture and print dealers and frame makers, in Market Street & Union Street, Aberdeen. The firm provided frames for most Aberdonian artists in the second half of the nineteenth century, including Brough. This is a posthumous portrait, completed shortly after Hay's death.