id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1020 Allan Ramsay (artist) - Wikipedia .html text/html 2102 218 67 Allan Ramsay (13 October 1713 – 10 August 1784) was a prominent Scottish portrait-painter. After their return, Ramsay in 1761 was appointed to succeed John Shackelton as Principal Painter in Ordinary to George III, beating Hudson to the post.[4][5] The king commissioned so many royal portraits to be given to ambassadors and colonial governors, that Ramsay used the services of numerous assistants—of whom David Martin and Philip Reinagle are the best known.[1] In a documentary broadcast by the BBC in February 2014, Ramsay was shown to be the artist who painted the lost portrait of Charles Edward Stuart in 1745, completed on the verge of his invasion of England.[7] In 2016 a portrait of Richard Mead (King George II's physician) by Allan Ramsay was discovered by Bendor Grosvenor (using the Art UK website) as part of the British BBC4 television programme Britain's Lost Masterpieces; conservation treatment was carried out by Simon Rollo Gillespie to repair the torn canvas and remove layers of discoloured varnishes. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1020.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1020.txt