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The Raeburn Portraits
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Alexander,
10th Duke of Hamilton |
Elizabeth, nee Graham,
of Brigton |
Mrs Margaret Hunter,
nee Douglas of Brigton |
Elizabeth Douglas |
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Elizabeth Abercrombie,
Nee Douglasa |
James Douglas
of Orchardton |
Sir John James
Scott Douglas |
Sir John James
Scott Douglas |
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William, later
11th Duke of Hamilton |
Rev. Robert Douglas |
Douglas,
8th Duke of Hamilton |
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Sir Henry Raeburn (4 March 1756 8 July 1823) was a
Scottish portrait painter and Scotland's first significant portrait
painter since the Union to remain based in Scotland. He served as
Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland.
Originally apprenticed to a goldsmith, Henry Raeburn showed enormous
artistic talent as a young man. In 1784 he moved to London where he met
the important portrait painter Joshua Reynolds. He spent some time in
Italy but returned to Edinburgh in 1787 where he began painting
portraits of the rich, famous and important people of his day. He was in
constant demand and received many honours: in 1822 he was knighted when
the King visited Edinburgh.
Sir Henry Raeburn died a year later in St Bernard's House (17 St
Bernards Crescent), Stockbridge, Edinburgh. He is buried in St.
Cuthbert's churchyard against the east wall (the monument erected by
Raeburn in advance) but also has a secondary memorial in the Church of
St John the Evangelist, Edinburgh.
Raeburn made more than a thousand paintings spanning fifty years.
Those dispayed here may not be the full collection of Raeburn's Douglas
portraits.
His sitters include the following:
Aboyne, the Countess of. Lady Mary Douglas, daughter of James,
fourteenth Earl of Morton, second wife of the fourth Earl of Aboyne ; 40
x 50. Wallis & Son, 1910.
Douglas, Lord. Earl of Home. ??Cospatrick Alexander Home, 11th
Earl of Home (17991881)
Douglas, Mrs. (See Elizabeth Graham).
Douglas, Margaret, of Brigton, afterwards Mrs. Hunter, of
Burnside ; 35 x 26|. Seated, three-quarter length, life-size, in a
landscape ; turned to left and looking in same direction. Powdered curly
hair. Low white dress, with blue waistband ; her hands folded in her
lap. Purchased from the family. Sedelmeyer (1905). Wallis & Son, 1910.
Douglas, Rev. Robert, D.D., of Galashiels ; died 1820. Painted
about 1813. Raeburn Exhibition, 1876. served his parishioners so well he
was called "The Father of Galashiels".
Graham, Elizabeth, of Fintry, afterwards Mrs. Douglas of Brigton.
Seated in an armchair in front of a tree, turned to right and looking in
same direction ; white dress, blue waist-band, muslin frill round neck ;
her right arm rests on arm of chair, her hands lie folded in her lap ;
three-quarter length, life-size ; 35 x 26. Purchased from the family;
Sedelmeyer, 1905. E. R. Bacon, Esq., New York. Sedelmeyer ; Wallis &
Son, 1910.
Hunter, Mrs., of Burnside. Seated, three-quarter length. Mrs.
Cox. (See Mrs. Douglas of Brigton).
Elizabeth Stephenson Douglas, wife of Sir Robert John
Abercrombie, 5th of Birkenbog. She was the daughter of Samuel Douglas,
of the Castle Douglas trading company family.
Sir John James
Scott Douglas Oil on canvas by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823),
unfinished on his death and probably completed by a pupil, c1823.
Douglas here wears the uniform of the 15th Hussars. Raeburn probably
abandoned the painting when Douglas transferred regiment in 1819.
William, 11th Duke of Hamilton (1811-1863), as a child, painted
c.1814 by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) Formerly hanging in Hamilton
Palace, South Lanarkshire, now at Lennoxlove, East Lothian
And:
Fettes, Sir Wm., Bart (1750-1836). Founder of the Fertes
College, and uncle of Sir. Wm. Fettes Douglas, the eminent Scottish
artist. Raeburn exhibition, 1876. Trustees of Fettes College.
WEMYSS, FRANCIS, (seventh) EARL OF; born 1779; married, 1794,
Margaret, daughter of Walter Campbell,of Shawfield; succeeded his
grandfather 1808; inherited the Earldom of March, and lands and lordship
of Neidpath, at the demise of William, fourth Duke of Queensberry 1810,
as heir male of his great-great-grandmother, Lady Anne Douglas, first
wife of David, third Earl of Wemyss, daughter of William, first Duke of
Queensberry, and sister of the Hon. William Douglas, who was created
Earl of March 1697. The Earl of Wemyss was enrolled amongst the peers of
the United Kingdom as Baron Wemyss, of Wemyss, Fifeshire, 1821 : died
1853; succeeded by Francis, his eldest son. Painted 1812.
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Sources
Sources for this article include:
Artnet
National
Portrait Gallery of Scotland Lennoxlove
Any contributions will be
gratefully accepted
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