Q/ui&vuMi'.
 
 LIFE 
 
 OF 
 
 IE HEXRT RAEBURS, R.A. 
 
 WITH PORTRAITS AXD APPENDIX. 
 
 HIS GREAT-GBANDSOM, 
 
 WILLIAM RAEBURN ANDREW, M.A.Oxoa, 
 
 BABXISTKR-AT-LAW. 
 
 LONDON: 
 W. H. ALLEN AND CO., 13 WATERLOO PLACE. S.W. 
 
 EDINBURGH: JOHN MENZEE3 A CO. 
 I8B6L
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 I HATE been induced to undertake this pleasant 
 task by those whom I have every reason to 
 respect. 
 
 As there exists no separate and complete 
 life of Sir Henry Raebnrn, I have felt it my 
 duty to collect fragments from various publi- 
 cations and make them coherent with a little 
 cement of my own. 
 
 My acknowledgments are especially due 
 to the authorities given in the following list, 
 and last, but not least, to my father, whose 
 letters, published from time to time in the 
 Scotch newspapers, have thrown considerable 
 light upon the subject. 
 
 Baeburn, it will be seen by the following 
 pages, was held in much regard and considera- 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 tion by his contemporary brother artists and 
 lovers of art, who also desired greatly to honour 
 him after his death ; and I feel well assured 
 that this little brochure by one nearly allied to 
 the great painter, and whose only desire has 
 been to do justice to his great qualities and 
 virtues, will be received with indulgence by the 
 eminent artists in his native city, and espe- 
 cially by Sir William Fettes Douglas, who so 
 worthily presides over the Royal Scottish 
 Academy. 
 
 W. BAEBUBN ANDBEW. 
 
 40, Chancery Lane, 
 
 May 1886.
 
 AUTHORITIES. 
 
 L Dr. John Brown, and other writers, in Wort* of Sir 
 MtAmm, BJL, published by Andrew Elliot, 
 
 of Sir Henry Baeburn, from the .Iftxvj.; B :~ 
 
 im. 
 
 3. Centmry of Painter*. by Bedgrare, 
 
 4. Imperial Dictiomary of Umirermd Bieyraplty. 
 
 5. Cmmmimykfm'* Lint of BritiA Pmimter*, edited by Mrs. 
 
 6. Tribute to &e Memory of Baebmn, by Dr. Andrew Duncan. 
 
 7. Family of Edgar, by J. H. C. Archer. 
 
 & TkJe*Wmmnim,184S. "Morrison's Bemini^ences." 
 9. Filkington's General Dicriomary of Pai mten. 
 
 10. Letters in nnoos Edinburgh nevspar^rs br Sir WlIHazu 
 Andrew, CXE^and others. 
 
 U. Litter* of'Jokm Cre, by Dr. J. Game Boss. 
 
 12. Life of Bum* Robert*, RA., by James BaUantine. 
 
 13. The Mffler of Dtamkamak, by James TMhriiw 
 
 14w Life of Sir Darid WiOtie, JUL, by AlUn Cunningham. 
 
 15. Catalogue of Baefaorn's works exhibited in Edinburgh, 
 
 ISO* 
 
 16. Catalogue, Loan Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1884. 
 
 17. Bate'* Peewmye amd 
 
 18. Borke's Landed Gentry. 
 
 19. Watford's Omnty
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 State of Art in Scotland. Kaeburn's Birth. Ancestors. 
 Education. First Signs of Genius. Success in Minia- 
 tures. Professor Duncan. David Martin. Begins to 
 Paint in Oil. Becomes known. Lord Eldin. Eomantic 
 Incident. Marriage. Visit to Beynolds. Studies in 
 Italy. Pompeo Battoni. Gavin Hamilton. Byers . 1-15 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Kaeburn returns to Edinburgh. Tribute to Eaeburn by 
 Professor Duncan. Harveian Society. Eclipses Martin. 
 Established as Head of his Profession. Succeeds to 
 St. Bernard's. Builds large Studios and Gallery in Edin- 
 burgh. Habits. Method of Painting. Sir Walter 
 Scott's impressions 16-31 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Raebum's success in Equestrian Portraits Sir David 
 Baird Earl of Hopetoun Duke of Hamilton. Groups 
 Sir John and Lady Clerk. Portraits of Celebrated Men 
 Lord Eldin Sir Walter Scott Dugald Stewart Play-
 
 coy TEXTS. 
 
 fair Horner Lord Frederick Campbell Glengarry 
 Hacnab Henry Erskine Chantrey Himself. Style 
 Original. Opinions of Sir David Wilkie Sir Thomas 
 Lawrence Sir Walter Scott John Came . 32-16 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Raebnrn's Active Mind. Various Accomplishments. Social 
 Qualities. Personal Appearance. Professor Duncan. 
 Mental Qualities. Fond of Home. Friend to young 
 Artists. Darid Roberts. Happy Home at St. Bernard's 
 Mrs. Ferrier's account of. Walter BOH. St. Bernard's 
 Well. Old Deanhaugh House. Servants of the old 
 School Ann Street . 47-67 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Raeburn, Member of various Literary and Scientific 
 Societies. Royal Academician. Proposes Royal Academy 
 in Edinburgh. Regular Contributor to Royal Academy 
 Exhibitions in London. Controversy about Backgrounds. 
 Visit of George IV. to Scotland. Raeburn knighted. 
 Wilkie and Ferguson at St. Bernard's. Banquet to 
 Raeburn by Artists. Appointed Limner. Invited by 
 His Majesty to London 68-79
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 Raeburn's later Works his best Earl of Hopetoun Earl 
 of Breadalbane Marquis of Huntly Lord Chief Com- 
 missioner Adam Constable. Portraits painted for him- 
 selfSir W. Scott Lord Jeffrey Earl of Buchan 
 Sir John Sinclair Rennie Mackenzie (" The Man of 
 Feeling ") Lord Cockburn, &c. Numerous Engravings 
 of his Works. His last Excursion with Scott, Shepherd, 
 and Adam. Scott his last Portrait. Illness and Death. 
 Artistic Merits. Public Sympathy. Honours paid to 
 his Memory by Public Institutions in Edinburgh and 
 London. Sir Thomas Lawrence. Sir David Wilkie. 
 Summary of Character 80-90 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Lady Eaeburn. Sir Henry's Sons, Peter and Henry. 
 Howden. Charlesfield. Dr. John Brown's visit. De- 
 scription of House and Pictures. Eaeburn Exhibition in 
 1876 . 91-96 
 
 APPENDIX . 97-160
 
 LIFE 
 
 OF 
 
 SIE HENRY EAEBTJKN, K.A. 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 State of Ait in Scotland. Baeburn's Birth. Ancestors. 
 Education. First Signs of Genius. Success in Minia- 
 tures. Professor Duncan. David Martin. Begins to 
 Faint in OiL Becomes known. Lord Mdin. Romantic 
 Incident. Marriage. Visit to Bejnolds. Studies in 
 Italy. Pompeo BattonL Gavin Hamilton. Brers. 
 
 gHE subject of the present memoir 
 may be considered as the founder 
 of the resident school of Scottish 
 painting. Scotland had not failed 
 
 to produce artists of eminence, both in history 
 and portrait. Among the latter, Jameson, and 
 
 Allan Ramsay, son of the poet, held most notable 
 
 1 
 
 40
 
 SIB HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 places. Their country, however, did not afford 
 patronage adequate to their merits ; - and they 
 were obliged to seek employment and distinction 
 in the great Metropolis. During the last half of 
 the eighteenth century, however, the progress of 
 wealth and taste led to a sensible improvement 
 in this particular ; and, during the early life 
 of Kaeburn, David Martin, though an artist 
 of only secondary talent, and not to be compared 
 to his two predecessors in the art, had obtained 
 very considerable employment in Edinburgh. 
 
 Baeburn was born in Stockbridge, on the 
 Water of Leith now a part of Edinburgh 
 on the 4th of March 1756. His ancestors were 
 of the sturdy Border stock reiving pastoral lairds 
 husbandmen in peace, and soldiers in war, till 
 the days of disorder ended with the union of 
 the Crowns, upon which they laid aside the 
 helmet and sword, and peacefully cultivated the
 
 ANCESTORS. 3 
 
 ground during succeeding generations. They pro- 
 bably took their name from Raeburn, a hill-farm 
 in Annandale, still held by Sir Walter Scott's 
 kinsfolk. Sir Henry used to say that he was 
 a Raeborn of that ilk, his forebears having had 
 it before the Scotts. On his shield is a Rae or 
 Roe-deer drinking from a frura*nmning at its 
 feet. The crest is a Roe's head, with the motto, 
 "Boburrn Deo." 
 
 A descendant of these Raebnrns, named Robert, 
 remoTed to Stockbridge, married Ann Elder, 
 commenced manufacturer, became the proprietor 
 of mills, and father of two sons, William and 
 Henry, of whom the former continued the 
 business at Stockbridge, and the latter became 
 the eminent artist. This descent, however satis- 
 factory to the painter, was less so, it seems, to 
 a northern antiquarian, who, unwilling to believe, 
 
 perhaps, that anyone so distinguished could come 
 
 1 *
 
 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 from such an ancestry, resolved to find for him 
 a loftier origin ; and accordingly set up a genea- 
 logical tree, which averred, in the mystic language 
 of allegorical biography, that he was a direct 
 descendant from the Raeburns of Raeburn, a 
 family distinguished in the Scottish wars, who 
 had won worthily the honours of knighthood, and 
 were allied, moreover, in blood and by marriage 
 to many of those of martial fame. Whether 
 this lineage be rooted in reality or romance is 
 not very material in the history of one whose 
 fame arises from his being the Reynolds of the 
 North, and the worthy companion in art of the 
 most eminent men of the British school of 
 painting. 
 
 While yet a child, he had the misfortune to 
 lose both his parents ; but this want was sup- 
 plied to him, as much as it could be, by his 
 brother William, the elder by a dozen years or
 
 SIGNS OF GENIUS. 
 
 more, who acted to him always the part of a 
 father. He was educated in Heriot's Hospital, 
 and is one of the singularly few of those 
 brought up in this Scottish Christ's Hospital 
 who became distinguished in after life a curious 
 contrast to the scholars of the great London 
 School. 
 
 It is understood that Sir Henry, during 
 his youthful education, did not discover any 
 particular propensity to the art in which he 
 was destined so remarkably to excel. It was 
 only observed, at the class of arithmetic, when 
 the boys were amusing themselves in drawing 
 figures on their slates, that his displayed a very 
 striking superiority to those of the other boys, 
 and were frequently caricatures of his comrades ; 
 but this did not lead any farther. "Wilkie's 
 school sketches in the same way notably surpassed 
 those of the other boys. In other respects, he
 
 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 was distinguished by the affection of his com- 
 panions, and formed at that early period inti- 
 macies with some of those friends whose regard 
 accompanied him through life. His nature was 
 open and sincere, and though his temper was 
 quick and warm, it had that quality in it which 
 never estranged friends, nor permanently offended 
 anyone. 
 
 Soon after attaining the age of fifteen he 
 began to paint beautiful water-colour miniatures 
 of his friends. In what manner this taste first 
 showed itself is not exactly known ; but it 
 certainly was altogether spontaneous, without 
 lesson or example. 
 
 About this time he was in the employment 
 of Mr. Gilliland, an eminent jeweller in Edin- 
 burgh, and executed for Professor Duncan a 
 memorial of his late pupil, Charles Darwin, in 
 the form of a small trinket for the watch-chain,
 
 DAVID MAETIN. 
 
 with the figure of a muse thereon, weeping over 
 an nrn marked with the initials C. D. Dr. 
 Duncan considered Raeborn's handiwork a mani- 
 fest proof of very superior genius, and long 
 preserved the trinket as a memorial of the 
 singular and early merit, both* of Darwin and 
 of Baebnrn. 
 
 Air. Gilliland also appreciated the talent of his 
 young Mend and introduced him to David Martin, 
 then the principal portrait-painter in the Scottish 
 metropolis, who resided in St. James' Square and 
 painted in the first starched Hudson style of 
 Sir Joshua Reynolds. Martin received him cour- 
 teously, and his condescension and his works 
 delighted and astonished Eaeburn so much, that 
 he declared, when his own name was deservedly 
 high, that the kind words of Martin were still 
 in his ears, and his paintings before him. The 
 portraits of that artist were to him what the
 
 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 verses of Ferguson were to Burns; and the 
 result was not much dissimilar they inspired a 
 style more free and more mentally lofty than 
 their own. He touched his miniatures with a 
 bolder hand, and they rose in estimation till 
 they were soon in general demand. He usually 
 turned them out at the rate of two in a week. 
 
 Young Raeburn soon after this began to take 
 higher views of art and to imagine himself 
 destined to a brighter lot than that of making 
 miniature likenesses of ordinary men. He formed 
 something like a studio, or small gallery, began 
 to try sketches in oil, and, having succeeded 
 better than utter inexperience could have cal- 
 culated on, he commenced working in the life 
 size ; nor did he find the task so serious as 
 some of his brethren said he would. His first 
 difficulty was the preparation of his colours, 
 putting them on the palette, and applying them
 
 POPULARITY. 
 
 according to the roles of art as taught in the 
 academies. All this he had to seek out for 
 himself. To aid him in this task he had recourse 
 to Martin, who generously allowed him to copy 
 some of his own pictures. But tke elder artist 
 felt some sort of presentiment that the youth, who 
 seemed so disposed to worship his works, would 
 in no distant day eclipse him ; so he limited his 
 help to the act of lending, and refused to teach 
 him how to draw or to prepare his colours a 
 mystery which the young artist was not long in 
 solTing or to contribute advice or assistance in 
 any other shape. 
 
 The name of Raeburn now began to be heard 
 of in his native city. Commissions for both 
 miniatures and life-size were numerous. So much 
 did his powers expand with space, that the latter 
 soon outrivalled the former, and grew so much 
 in request, that he resolved to relinquish minia-
 
 10 SIR HENR? RAEBURN. 
 
 ture-painting entirely and abide by the easel. 
 Several friends concurred in advising" this ; and 
 amongst them was the learned and witty John 
 Clerk, afterwards a Judge of the Court of Session 
 under the title of Lord Eldin ; a gentleman of 
 rare parts, who, to his other acquirements, added 
 some skill of hand in the art of painting. 
 
 From the first, none of the stiffness and atti- 
 tudinarianism of Martin appeared in the full-size 
 portraits of Eaeburn ; and, what was much more 
 remarkable, none of the small, nice, trembling 
 littleness of the miniature style could be traced 
 in his oil-pictures : all was broad, massy, and 
 vigorous. He passed completely from delicacy 
 and minuteness to his bold "square touch" in 
 oil. 
 
 In 1778, when twenty-two, the following ro- 
 mantic incident, as told by Cunningham, occurred : 
 " One day a young lady presented herself at his
 
 ZOM ANTIC INCIDENT. 11 
 
 studio, and desired to sit for her portrait; he 
 instantly remembered having seen her in some of 
 his excursions, when, with his sketch-book in his 
 hand, he was noting down fine snatches of scenery ; 
 and as the appearance of anythirig living and 
 lovely gives an additional charm to a landscape, 
 the painter, like Gainsborough in similar circum- 
 stances, had admitted her readily into his drawing." 
 For though he had no desire to forsake the line 
 of portraiture, he loved to make himself ac- 
 quainted with what was fair in landscape, and 
 also with what was noble in historical composi- 
 tion. This circumstance, it is said, had its 
 influence : on further acquaintance he found that, 
 besides personal charms, she had sensibility and 
 wit. His respect for her did not affect his skill 
 of hand, but rather inspired it. He fell in love 
 with his sitter, and made a very fine portrait of 
 her. This lady was Ann, Countess Leslie (widow
 
 12 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 of a French Count), daughter of Peter Edgar, 
 the Laird of Bridgelands, and was so much pleased 
 with the skill, and likewise with the manners of 
 the artist, that, within a month or so after this 
 adventure in the studio, she gave him her hand 
 in marriage, bestowing at once a most affectionate 
 wife, good sense, and a handsome fortune. 
 
 Raeburn was now comparatively rich ; his pro- 
 fession of itself was yielding him an income more 
 than equal to his wants ; his name was heard of 
 beyond Edinburgh, and he was universally looked 
 upon as one whom genius and fortune had united 
 to raise. But he saw that to obtain present 
 popularity was one thing and lasting fame another. 
 The latter, he knew, was not to be gained by 
 such imperfect skill as his, and he resolved to 
 improve himself by studying the best models. 
 
 After some years of happy married life spent 
 at Deanhaugh House, the property of his wife,
 
 SIB JOSHUA REYNOLDS. 13 
 
 near the Water of Leith, he resolved to visit 
 London and improve himself in his art. 
 
 He was introduced to Sir Joshua Reynolds, 
 was kindly received by him, produced some of 
 his portraits, and gained at once, it is said, 
 the favour and friendship of the most discerning 
 and cautious of men. He himself ever afterwards 
 mentioned the name of Sir Joshua with much 
 respect, and often related how the great painter 
 counselled him to go to Rome and worship 
 Michael Angelo in the Sistine Chapel, and 
 study his " terribile via," and how in parting 
 he took him aside and whispered, " Young 
 man, I know nothing of your circumstances; 
 young painters are seldom rich; but if money 
 be necessary for your studies abroad, say so, and 
 you shall not want it." 
 
 This generous offer, however, Raeburn declined 
 with due thanks, as he did not need that kind
 
 14 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 of assistance, and he set out for Rome, abun- 
 dantly supplied by Sir Joshua with " letters of 
 introduction to all the noted men of science and 
 artists in that capital, among these Pompeo 
 Battoni, the favourite painter there at that 
 time. 
 
 There was then staying at Rome, Gavin 
 Hamilton, a Scottish painter of good family 
 and of some fame, and, what was more useful 
 to students, of unvaried kindness and of great 
 influence. To him Raeburn was indebted for 
 many attentions. Here also our artist met 
 Mr. Byers the art critic and collector, who 
 recommended him, when possible, not to trust 
 to his memory in painting even subordinate parts 
 of his pictures. This advice Raeburn followed, 
 and whether it was the principal figure or the 
 minutest accessory, he had it always before him ; 
 and to the strict observance of this rule he
 
 RETURN FROM BOMB. 15 
 
 ascribed, in a great measure, his continued 
 improvement, and the genuine and natural cha- 
 racter which his pictures always preserved. 
 
 Two years of diligent study were spent in Italy, 
 to and from which country he travelled with all 
 practicable expedition, without stopping at Paris 
 or at any other place.
 
 16 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Eaeburn returns to Edinburgh. Tribute to Eaeburn by 
 Professor Duncan. Harveian Society. Eclipses Martin. 
 Established as Head of his Profession. Succeeds to St. 
 Bernard's. Builds large Studios and Gallery in Edin- 
 burgh. Habits. Method of Painting. Sir Walter 
 Scott's impressions. 
 
 IS powers now fully matured, Rae- 
 burn returned in 1787 to his 
 native country, and immediately 
 established himself at Edinburgh. 
 Having taken apartments in George Street, for 
 professional purposes, he came at once into full 
 employment as a portrait-painter. 
 
 Professor Duncan, in his Tribute to Raeburn 
 (the discourse to the Harveian Society of
 
 ffARVEIAX S'x'lETY. 17 
 
 Edinburgh in 1824), mentions that the Society 
 were in some degree instrumental in giving 
 our artist a favourable introduction to public 
 notice. For soon after his return from abroad, 
 the Society employed him to draw a picture 
 of one of their original members, ^Yilliam 
 Inglis, " the chief restorer of the Ludi Apol- 
 linares at Edinburgh, games annually celebrated 
 on the Links of Leith, at which there is an 
 admirable combination of healthful exercise 
 with social mirth." Soon afterwards he painted 
 for the Society a portrait of their second 
 President, Alexander Wood. A third subject 
 on which Raeburn, at an early period, employed 
 his pencil, was a painting of Dr. Duncan 
 himself, for the Royal Public Dispensary, of 
 which he was the founder. These three pic- 
 tures attracted very considerable notice in Edin- 
 burgh. They were soon followed by three 
 
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 18 8IR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 other portraits of eminent men, to whom the 
 University of Edinburgh is very much indebted: 
 Dr. William Robertson, long Principal of the 
 University ; Dr. Adam Ferguson, Professor 
 of Political and Moral Philosophy; and Thomas 
 Elder, Lord Provost. These three pictures are 
 mentioned by Dr. Duncan as ornamenting the 
 Senate Hall of the University. 
 
 According to Cunningham, " Martin was the 
 first to prove the superiority of Raeburn after his 
 return ; his cold, bloodless features, and formal 
 attitudes, were eclipsed by the breathing heads and 
 bold postures of Raeburn. Commissions passed 
 his door and found their way to his rival ; in vain 
 he prophesied that this fever of approbation could 
 not last; and, like Hudson before him, in the 
 case of Sir Joshua, presumptuously declared that 
 ' the lad in George Street ' painted better before he 
 went to Rome." The public, however, persisted
 
 HEAD OF PROFESSION. 19 
 
 in being of another opinion ; Martin presently 
 gave np the contest in despair, and retired from 
 the field, where he had .been lon<* withont a 
 rival. 
 
 Raeburn became the only portrait-painter of 
 eminence ; and he continued always decidedly 
 the first, notwithstanding the able artists who 
 have since risen in Edinburgh to adorn both that 
 and other branches of the art. 
 
 He was now in his thirty-second year ; had 
 tine health, high spirits, a gallery worthy of 
 being seen by people of rank and taste ; and, 
 what was not less pleasant, the bliss of domestic 
 tranquillity. 
 
 About this time he removed with his family 
 from Deanhaugh to the neighbouring estate of 
 St. Bernard's, which he had succeeded to on the 
 death of his elder brother William. In addition 
 
 to a paternal inheritance there, he became pro- 
 
 2 *
 
 20 SIR HENRY RAEBVRN. 
 
 prietor of some fields on its north side, a great 
 part of which, as the demand for building 
 extended, was let on a perpetual lease by him for 
 houses, with gardens, on so judicious and tasteful 
 a plan, that it soon became the most extensive 
 suburb attached to Edinburgh. 
 
 In 1795, finding his apartments in George 
 Street not sufficiently spacious for the increasing 
 number of sitters, he was obliged to leave them 
 for more extensive accommodation. As art re- 
 quires peculiar arrangements, he had to build for 
 himself; but this he was quite prepared to do ; 
 architecture had been for some time a favourite 
 study ; and with better success, because with 
 better knowledge, than Romney, he planned and 
 built his new gallery in York Place. 
 
 This structure stands in one of the best 
 frequented streets of the New Town, and con- 
 sisted at the time of a sunk story for domestic
 
 STUDIOS AND GALLERY. Jl 
 
 accommodation, a ground-floor, containing the 
 painting rooms, with a story above, formed into 
 one fine gallery fifty-five feet long, and thirty-five 
 feet wide, lighted from the roof. On the walls 
 of this stately apartment he hung his works when 
 finished ; and the doors were open to all who 
 had taste or curiosity. It is still known as 
 Raeburn House. 
 
 "I remember," says Cunningham, "finding 
 my way into this place. My astonishment was 
 beyond the power of painting to express. I had 
 never seen works of art, or at least of genius, 
 before, and had no conception of the spirit and 
 mind which colours could embody. I was much 
 struck at the first glance with some Highland 
 chiefs, ' all plaided and plumed in their tartan 
 array,' whose picturesque dress and martial bear- 
 ing contrasted finely with the graver costume and 
 sterner brows of the Lowlauders. What I next
 
 22 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 dwelt on was several family groups of ladies and 
 children, with snatches of landscape behind, 
 where streams descended through wild woods or 
 loitered in little holms. But that on which my 
 mind finally settled was the visible capacity for 
 thought which most of the heads had, together 
 with their massive and somewhat gloomy splen- 
 dour of colouring. The artist came in and said 
 a word or two in a low tone of voice ; someone 
 was probably sitting, for he had his palette on 
 his thumb." 
 
 From his return to Edinburgh until his death, 
 his life was busy, happy, and victorious. Full of 
 work, eager, hospitable, faithful in his friendships, 
 happy in his home, he was one of the best-liked 
 men of his time. 
 
 The following is Cunningham's account of 
 him : " Though his painting-rooms were in 
 York Place, his dwelling-house was at St. Ber-
 
 HABITS. & 
 
 nurd's, near Stockbridge, overlooking the Water 
 of Leith, a romantic place. The steep banks 
 were then finely wooded, the garden grounds 
 varied and beautiful, and all the seclusion of the 
 country could be enjoyed without the remoteness. 
 The motions of the artist were as regular as those 
 of a clock. He rose at seven during summer, took 
 breakfast about eight with his wife and children, 
 walked up to his great room in 32, York Place, 
 now occupied by Colvin Smith, R.S.A., and was 
 ready for a sitter by nine ; and of sitters he 
 generally had, for many years, not fewer than 
 three or four a day. To these he gave an hour 
 and a half each. He seldom kept a sitter more 
 than two hours, unless the person happened and 
 that was often the case to be gifted with more 
 than common talents ; he then felt himself happy, 
 and never failed to detain the party till the arrival 
 of a new sitter intimated that he must be gone.
 
 24 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 " For a head size he generally required four or 
 live sittings ; and he preferred painting the head and 
 hands to any other part of the body, assigning as 
 a reason that they required least consideration. A 
 fold of drapery, or the natural ease which the 
 casting of a mantle over the shoulder demanded, 
 occasioned him more perplexing study than a head 
 full of thought and imagination. Such was the 
 intuition with which he penetrated at once to the 
 mind, that the first sitting rarely came to a close 
 without his having seized strongly on the character 
 and disposition of the individual. He never drew 
 in his heads or, indeed, any part of the body 
 with chalk, a system pursued successfully by 
 Lawrence, but began with the brush at once. 
 The forehead, chin, nose and mouth were his first 
 touches. He always painted standing, and never 
 used a stick for resting his hand on ; for such was 
 his accuracy of eye and steadiness of nerve, that
 
 HABITS. 
 
 he could introduce the most delicate touches, or 
 the utmost mechanical regularity of line, without 
 aid or other contrivance than fair off-hand dex- 
 terity. He remained in his painting-room till a 
 little after five o'clock, when he walked home, and 
 dined at six. 
 
 " This regular system of labour could not fail 
 to produce a great number and variety of works, 
 and likewise bring a very respectable income. 
 But, methodical in most matters, as he certainly 
 was, and a man who embarked in nothing extra- 
 vagant, he had an invincible repugnance to keeping 
 either lists of his portraits or any account of his 
 earnings. The sitters, whether Highland or Low- 
 laud, lords or ladies, received their portraits when 
 finished ; the charge was made, and the money, 
 if needed, applied to the domestic expenses of his 
 family, or placed in the bank, to work while he 
 slept. This peculiarity whether we call it cul-
 
 26 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 pable carelessness or magnanimous disregard of 
 lucre has been very disadvantageous -to the bio- 
 grapher." 
 
 In a word, it has deprived us of all chance 
 to trace with accuracy the history, name, and 
 date of many of Raebnrn's individual works. 
 He, perhaps, enjoyed life too much to be very 
 eager about either fame or money. He was 
 happy and charmed, he often said, with the work 
 of the day, and he described portrait-painting as 
 the most delightful thing in the world, inasmuch 
 as everybody came to him with their happiest 
 moods and pleasantest faces, and went away 
 always pleased to see that they looked so well on 
 canvas. 
 
 He congratulated himself that his profession 
 led neither to discord nor disputes a circum- 
 stance much to the credit of his own tact 
 and prudence, for strife and bitterness find out
 
 METHOD OF PAINTING. 27 
 
 other brethren of the easel in situations where 
 peace only ought to be. 
 
 We can easily imagine that a walk on the 
 banks of the river with his wife, or looking at 
 the flowers in his gardens, or sketching land- 
 scapes to introduce into the backgrounds of his 
 pictures, might be much more to his taste than 
 the account -book or the ready-reckoner. Indeed, 
 he acknowledged that in his wanderings during 
 the morning and the evening he saw clouds, and 
 skies, and landscapes, which he brooded upon, 
 and nxed them in his imagination, where they 
 remained till transferred to canvas. 
 
 One of his sitters thus describes him: "He 
 spoke a few words to me in his usual brief and 
 kindly way, evidently to put me into an agreeable 
 mood ; and then, having placed me in a chair on 
 a platform at the end of his painting-room, in 
 the posture required, set up his easel beside me,
 
 28 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 with the canvas ready to receive the colour. 
 When he saw all was right, he took liis palette 
 and his brush, retreated back step by step, with 
 his face towards me, till he was nigh the other 
 end of his room ; he stood and studied for a 
 minute more, then came up to the canvas, and, 
 without looking at me, wrought upon it with colour 
 for some time. Having done this, he retreated 
 in the same manner, studied my looks at that 
 distance for about another minute, then came 
 hastily up to the canvas and painted a few 
 minutes more. 
 
 " I had sat to other artists ; their way was 
 quite different : they made an outline carefully 
 in chalk, measured it with compasses, placed 
 the canvas close to me, and, looking me almost 
 without ceasing in the face, proceeded to fill up 
 the outline with colour. They succeeded best in 
 the minute detai] Kaeburn best in the general
 
 CONVERSATION. 
 
 result of the expression ; they obtained by means 
 of a multitude of little touches what he found 
 by broader masses ; they gave more of the man 
 he gave most of the mind. 
 
 "I may add, that I found him well-informed, 
 with no professional pedantry about him ; indeed, 
 no one could hare imagined him a painter till 
 he took up the brush and palette. He conversed 
 with me upon mechanics and ship-building, and. 
 if I can depend upon my own imperfect judg- 
 ment, he had studied ship architecture with 
 great success. 
 
 " On one of the days of my sittings he had 
 to dine with me at the house of a mutual friend. 
 Our hour was six, and you know how punctual 
 to time we of the North are: he painted at 
 my portrait till within a quarter of an hour of 
 the time, threw down his palette and brushes, 
 went into a little closet, and in five minutes
 
 30 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 sallied out to dinner in a trim worthy of the 
 first company. I can remember no more that 
 is noteworthy. I sat six times, and two hours 
 together." 
 
 While he thus made the portrait much more 
 correct and animated, his sitters had a much more 
 agreeable task than those who were pinned up for 
 hours in a constrained and inanimate posture, and 
 in a state of mental vacuity. So agreeable, indeed, 
 did many of the most distinguished and intelligent 
 among them find his society, that they courted it 
 ever after, and studiously converted the artist into 
 a friend and acquaintance. 
 
 Scott, speaking of Raeburn, thus describes 
 him : " His conversation "was rich, and he told 
 his story well. His manly stride backwards, as 
 he went to contemplate his work at a proper 
 distance, and, when resolved on the necessary 
 point to be touched, his step forward, were mag-
 
 SIB W. SCOTT. 31 
 
 nificent. I see him, in mj mind's eye, with 
 his hand under his chin, contemplating his 
 picture, which position always Drought me in 
 mind of a figure of Jupiter which I have some- 
 where seen."
 
 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Raeburn's success in Equestrian Portraits Sir David 
 Baird Earl of Hopetoun Duke of Hamilton. Groups 
 Sir John and Lady Clerk. Portraits of Celebi*ated Men 
 Lord ,Eldin Sir Walter Scott Dugald Stewart 
 Playfair Homer Lord Frederick Campbell Glengarry 
 Macnab Henry Erskine Chantrey Himself. Stylo 
 Original. Opinions of Sir David Wilkie Sir Thomas 
 Lawrence Sir Walter Scott John Carne. 
 
 E SIDES his excellence in the 
 essential quality of portraiture, 
 Sir Henry possessed also in an 
 eminent degree those secondary 
 merits which are requisite to constitute a fine 
 painting. His drawing was correct, his colouring 
 rich, deep, and harmonious, and his lights well 
 disposed. There was something bold, free, and 
 open in the whole style of his execution. The
 
 EQUESTRIAN PORTRAITS. S3 
 
 accessories, whether of drapery, furniture, or land- 
 scape, were treated with elegance and spirit, yet 
 without that elaborate and brilliant finishing which 
 makes them become principals. These parts were 
 always kept in due subordination to the human 
 figure; while of it, the head came always out 
 bold, prominent, and imposing. Animals, particu- 
 larly that noble species, the horse, were introduced 
 with peculiar felicity ; and Sir Henry's equestrian 
 portraits are perhaps his very best performances. 
 The able manner in which the animal itself was 
 drawn, and in which it was combined with the 
 human figure, were equally conspicuous. His 
 portraits of Sir David Baird, of the Earl of Hope- 
 toun, of his own son on horseback, and above all, 
 perhaps, his later one of the Duke of Hamilton, 
 are striking illustrations of this remark. 
 
 This skilful grouping and judicious arrange- 
 ment of the accessories gave a peculiarly good 
 
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 34 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 effect to his family pictures, for which, however, 
 Scotland did not afford a very extensive demand. 
 That of Sir John and Lady Clerk, of Peni- 
 cuik, relations of his friend Lord Eldin, is 
 worthy of notice, both from being a work of his 
 youth, and for the truth and elegance of the like- 
 nesses. Poets and painters, from Ramsay to 
 Eaeburn, have found that mansion open ; the 
 Clerks were friends of the genius of Scotland 
 for more than a century. These pieces, and 
 others, carried the name of Raeburn over Scot- 
 land and England, and all who visited Edinburgh 
 became desirous of seeing one whom the 
 newspapers already styled the Reynolds of the 
 North. 
 
 Cunningham says : " Scotland, during the 
 forty years of Raeburn 's labours with the pencil, 
 abounded in eminent men. When he set up his 
 easel, on his return from Rome, Burns had just
 
 published his poems, and commenced his glorious 
 and too brief career. Blair, Home, Kames, Mac- 
 kenzie, Woodhonslee, Robertson. Home, Logan, 
 Monboddo. Boswell, Blacklock, Adam Smith, 
 Hntton, Ferguson, Dngald Stewart, and many 
 others known to fame and distinguished for 
 their wit, were all living in. Edinburgh, and 
 mostly in friendly intercourse with each other. 
 Baebnrn came, therefore, in a good time, and 
 he was more aware "of this than the brethren 
 of the brush are apt to be of similar adran- 
 tages." 
 
 To the great body of mankind the worth of a 
 portrait consists in its faithful delineation of 
 some person well known to fame. Artists, on 
 the other hand, imagine that the fame of the 
 portrait ainsgB from th<* artistic HII which it 
 exhibits, irrespective of the 
 
 Baebnrn had the good sense to be of the 
 
 3
 
 36 SIR HENRY RAEHURN. 
 
 rather than the professional opinion as to this 
 matter. 
 
 With the exception of Burns, and one or two 
 more, he painted portraits of most of the eele- 
 brated individuals by whom Scotland was illus- 
 trated during his career; and "a gallery of the 
 illustrious heads of a most brilliant period might 
 almost be completed from his works alone." 
 (Cunningham.) 
 
 Among those painted at an early period, the 
 portrait of Mr. John Clerk, afterwards Lord Eldin, 
 ranks among the best ; that of Principal Hill, St. 
 Andrews, also possessed great merit. Among the 
 works executed during the last ten years of his 
 life, the portraits of Sir Walter Scott (full length, 
 which has been frequently engraved), of Mr. 
 Dugald Stewart (Professor of Moral Philosophy, 
 Edinburgh), Mr. Playfair (Professor of Natural 
 Philosophy, Edinburgh), Mr. Horner (Barrister,
 
 FULL LENGTH OF SCOTT. 37 
 
 Member of Parliament, and political writer), 
 Lord Frederick Campbell, MacDonnell of Glen- 
 garry, Maciiab of Macnab, both in the High- 
 land costume, and many others, merit particular 
 notice. 
 
 The full length of Scott is thus described 
 by Dr. John Brown : " Then there is Scott 
 sitting on ruins, his dog Camp the English 
 bull-terrier, on whose death-day he wrote 
 saying he could not dine out, because ' a 
 very dear friend ' had died at his feet, the 
 stern old keep of Hermitage in the distance 
 was there ever a more poetic picture of 
 a poet? Look at his child-mouth, his rapt, 
 brooding eyes, seeing things invisible, peopling 
 the past. Camp, with his unreflex animal eyes, 
 is looking, as only dogs look, into the visible and 
 the near. What cares he for knights of old, and 
 minstrelsy, and glamourye ? He is snuffing up
 
 SIB HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 some possible foumart, or watching the twinkling 
 fud of a vanishing rabbit. The replica of this 
 portrait has in it two favourite greyhounds of Sir 
 Walter, 'Douglas' and 'Percy,' and the Braes 
 of Yarrow for the background." It is believed 
 that Eaeburn, when staying at Abbotsford on one 
 occasion, took a preliminary sketch in this attitude, 
 unknown to Scott, while the artist was taking a 
 walk in the valley below. 
 
 The portrait of Francis Horner was of con- 
 siderable assistance to Chantrey in modelling the 
 head of his fine statue of that lamented states- 
 man. 
 
 His fine picture of the Hon. Henry Erskine 
 (the Lord Advocate of Scotland), one of his most 
 exquisite works, appeared at the " Old Masters' " 
 Exhibition at Burlington House in 1873. It was 
 lent by the late Mrs. Wilbraham Tollemache. 
 
 Several other of Raeburn's portraits, all good
 
 PORTRAIT OF CHANT&EY. 
 
 powerful paintings, have appeared from time to 
 time at the " Old Masters' " Exhibitions. 
 
 Daring the period in which he took the 
 portraits of those literary men and eminent 
 lawyers, he did not altogether neglect the children 
 of art. He painted the head of Chantrey the 
 sculptor, and gave it away in these words: " Tell 
 my friend, Mrs. Chantrey, that I will, in a few 
 days, send np her picture; but do not think of 
 sending an order in payment as yon proposed, for, 
 if yon do, I will infallibly send it back again by 
 next post, and that would pat both yon and me 
 to the expense of doable postage." The painter 
 was much less satisfied with this head than it 
 deserved; it was an excellent likeness, and the 
 sentiment neither too solemn nor too smiling, 
 but in that tranquil medium which is most 
 becoming, and also most rare. 
 
 " He painted also the singularly handsome and
 
 40 SIR HENRY EAEBUKN. 
 
 intellectual head of Hugh Williams, the artist 
 and traveller, whose exquisite drawings "of Grecian 
 scenery have been so well engraved, and form the 
 best of all illustrations for ChUde Harold. The third 
 and last artist whom he painted was himself, and 
 I know not that he ever succeeded better." 
 (Cunningham.) 
 
 His manner of taking his likenesses explains 
 the simplicity and power of his heads. His 
 hands are admirably drawn, full of expression, 
 and plainly portraits. Having stored his mind 
 with ideas drawn from the purest school of 
 modern art, he was indebted for his subsequent 
 improvement solely to his own reflections and 
 the study of nature. 
 
 He was never in the habit of repairing to 
 London ; and, indeed, he did not visit that 
 metropolis above three times, nor did he reside 
 in it altogether more than four months. He
 
 LIGXITY OF STYLE. 41 
 
 was thus neither in the habit of seeing the 
 works of his contemporaries, nor the English 
 collections of old pictures. Whatever disadvan- 
 tage might attend this, it never stopped the 
 career of his improvement. Probably, indeed, 
 it had the effect of preserving that originality 
 which formed always the decided character of 
 his productions, and kept him free from being 
 trammelled by the style of any class of artists. 
 Perhaps, also, the elevation and dignity of style 
 which he always maintained might be greatly 
 owing to his almost exclusive acquaintance with 
 the works of the Italian masters. 
 
 In 1810, on the occasion of one of these rare 
 visits to London, Sir David Wilkie notes in his 
 diary, May 12 : " Had a call from Raeburn, who 
 told me he had come to London to look out for 
 a house, and to see if there was any prospect of 
 establishing himself. I took him, by his own
 
 42 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 desire, to see Sir William Beechey, who 
 asked us both to dine with him tor-morrow." 
 Again, on June 4 : " Went with Raeburn to the 
 Crown and Anchor to meet the gentlemen of 
 the Royal Academy. I introduced him to Flax- 
 man ; after dinner he was asked by Beechey to 
 sit near the President, when his health was 
 proposed by Flaxman, and great attention was 
 paid to him." 
 
 Sir Henry did not devote any part of his 
 attention either to historical or landscape paint- 
 ing. His employment as a portrait-painter was 
 constant, and his leisure hours were devoted to 
 other pursuits. Although his pieces were care- 
 fully finished, yet he painted with uncommon 
 expedition. His firm and sure touch enabled 
 him to execute at once what others effected only 
 by successive trials and operations. Sir Thomas 
 Lawrence, it is understood, has been heard to
 
 LAWRENCE AND WILKIE. 
 
 say, that though he received a higher price for 
 his pictures, he was worse paid for his time than 
 Raebnrn, on account of the latter's rapidity of 
 execution. Professor Duncan, in his Harveian 
 discourse, says : " There is, perhaps, hardly any 
 portrait-painter who, during an equal length of 
 time, produced an equal number of fine pictures, 
 for in painting portraits he was fully and assidu- 
 ously employed for more than forty years; and 
 he never allowed any picture to go out of his 
 hands on which he did not bestow very great 
 attention." 
 
 Sir David WilMe (a first-rate art critic as 
 well as a great artist), writing from Madrid, 
 repeatedly alludes to the simple and powerful 
 style of Velasquez, as always reminding him of 
 Raeburn's works, and in one letter says of 
 Velasquez : " There is much resemblance between 
 him and the works of some of the chiefs of the
 
 44 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 English school ; but of all, Raeburri resembles 
 him most, in whose square touch in heads, hands, 
 and accessories I see the very counterpart in 
 Velasquez." And Sir Walter Scott is reported 
 to have called him the Vandyke of Scotland. 
 
 John Carne, a name well known forty years 
 ago, the friend of " Christopher North," De 
 Quincey, Wordsworth, and other celebrities of 
 the Lake District, in one of his letters, which 
 have been lately printed by his grand-nephew 
 Dr. John Carne Ross of Penzance, shortly after 
 a visit to the " Wizard of the North " at 
 Abbotsford, makes the following interesting allu- 
 sion to Raeburn : " The best likeness of him 
 (Scott) was executed by Sir Henry Raeburn ; 
 most of those in England are not faithful." 
 
 Of Sir Henry Raeburn's pictures, it may be said 
 that few exhibit that minute degree of finishing 
 which invites close inspection. At an early period
 
 STYLE OF FINISH. 45 
 
 of his life, he seems to haTe become highly sen- 
 sible of that breadth and force of light and shade 
 which gives effect to a picture ; and it was his 
 constant practice to paint, rather than draw, from 
 objects before him, as he judged that labour 
 unnecessary which was not to tell in the general 
 result of his works. Such a style of finish, how- 
 ever, is attended with peculiar difficulty, and can 
 only be the result of matured experience com- 
 bined with the rarest talents. To such as are 
 desirous of studying this style, the pictures of 
 Sir Henry will afford a school of very interesting 
 instruction. They will present striking examples 
 of that discernment and dexterity which can at 
 once see and at once express all that is effective 
 and essential, so as to exhibit at the distance 
 from which they are intended to be seen, the full 
 result of the highest and most careful finishing. 
 It has been judiciously said that all who are
 
 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 conversant with the practice of the Art, must 
 have observed how often the spirit which gave 
 life and vigour to a first sketch has gradually 
 evaporated as the picture advanced to its more 
 finished state. To preserve the spirit, as Sir 
 Henry did, combined with the evanescent deli- 
 cacies and blendings which nature on minute 
 inspection exhibits, constitutes a perfection of 
 art to which few have attained. His works, 
 indeed, like those of Vandyke, possess a freedom, 
 a vigour, and spirit of effect, and carry an impres- 
 sion of grace, life, and reality, which may be 
 looked for in vain amidst thousands of pictures, 
 both ancient and modern, of more elaborate 
 execution and minute finish.
 
 ACTIVE iriyp. 
 
 CHAPTER IV 
 
 Eaeburn's Active Mind. Various Accomplishments. Social 
 Qualities. Personal Appearance. Professor Duncan. 
 Mental Qualities. Fond of Home. Friend to young 
 Artists. David Roberts. Happy Home at St. Bernard's 
 Mrs. Ferrier's account of. Walter Boss. St. Bernard's 
 Well Old Deanhaugh House. Servants of the old 
 School Ann Street. 
 
 HE active mind of Sir Henry was 
 by no means confined within the 
 circle of his profession. Indeed, 
 those who hest knew him con- 
 ceived that the eminence to which he attained in 
 it was less the result of any exclusive propensity, 
 than of the general powers of mind which wonld 
 have led to excellence in any pursuit to which he 
 had directed his attention.
 
 48 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 Though in a great degree self-taught, his 
 knowledge was varied and extensive. His 
 classical attainments were considerable ; but 
 mechanics and natural philosophy formed the 
 favourite objects of his study. To these, in a 
 particular manner, he devoted the leisure of his 
 evenings, when not interrupted by the claims of 
 society. 
 
 He was an adventurer in experiments, both 
 by water and land. He had considerable skill 
 in gardening ; he was a learned and enthusiastic 
 florist, and to the mysteries of hot-houses, 
 flues, &c., he dedicated many experiments. 
 
 To his love of maritime architecture allusion 
 has already been made. He constructed 
 many models with his own hands neat, 
 clean-built, ingenious things, all about three 
 feet long in the keel and it was his pleasure 
 to try their merits frequently in Wariston
 
 ACCOMPLISHMENTS. 49 
 
 Pond. On one occasion, not long before his 
 death, he had pushed his model from the 
 side, where the water was deep, and, on 
 stretching ont his hands to adjust a rope, he 
 fell forward into the pond, and Cameron, his 
 servant, rescued him with difficulty. 
 
 Baeburn was also a scientific and skilful angler. 
 and went often a-trouting in his native streams; 
 he loved to refresh his eyes, too, with the sight 
 of nature, and inclined to wander by himself on 
 the banks of brooks, and by the wooded hill. He 
 loved to make long excursions among the distant 
 glens and romantic woods of his native land, and 
 sometimes did not return for weeks ; his son 
 Henry, on such occasions, accompanied him. 
 Sketches of landscapes for his backgrounds were 
 the offspring of those summer rambles. 
 
 Sculpture was also an object of his peculiar 
 
 study; and so great was his taste for it, that 
 
 4
 
 50 SIB HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 at Rome he, at one time, entertained the idea 
 of devoting himself to that noble art as a 
 profession in preference to painting. A medal- 
 lion of himself, which he afterwards executed, 
 satisfied all men of taste, who saw it, that he 
 would have attained to equal excellence in this 
 art had he made it the object of his choice. 
 
 Few men were better calculated to command 
 respect in society than Sir Henry Raeburn. His 
 varied knowledge, his gentlemanly and agreeable 
 manners, an extensive command of anecdote, 
 always well told and happily introduced, the 
 general correctness and propriety of his whole 
 deportment, made him be highly valued by 
 many of the most distinguished individuals, both 
 as a companion and a friend. His conversa- 
 tion might be said in some degree to resemble 
 his style of painting there was the same ease 
 and simplicity, the same total absence of affecta-
 
 COMMANDING APPEARANCE. 51 
 
 turn of every kind, and the same manly torn of 
 sense and genius. But it does not appear that 
 after his school-days the humorous gaiety and 
 sense of the ludicrous, which often enlivened 
 his conversation, ever guided his pencil. 
 
 Sir Henry Baeburn, like Raphael, Michael 
 Angelo, and some other masters of the art, 
 possessed the advantage of a tall and command- 
 ing person, and a noble and expressive counte- 
 nance. He excelled at archery, golf, and other 
 Scottish exercises, being a member of the Royal 
 Company of Scottish Archers, of the Golfers' 
 Company at Leith, and of the Society for the 
 Restoration of the Ludi Appotinares at Edinburgh ; 
 and, as has already been said, while engaged in 
 painting, his step and attitudes were at once 
 stately and graceful. 
 
 According to Professor Duncan, he resembled 
 
 Reynolds in the variety of his accomplishments, 
 
 4 *
 
 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 intimacy with eminent men, and membership 
 of learned Societies ; and the Professor, in his 
 Discourse to the Harveian Society before 
 mentioned, touchingly alludes to his last game 
 of golf with Raeburn as having taken place 
 on the 7th June 1823 at Leith Links. 
 
 The mental qualities of that excellent man 
 corresponded with the graces of his conversation 
 and exterior. By those- who most intimately 
 knew him, he was described as uniting in an 
 eminent degree the qualities which command 
 genuine esteem. 
 
 His attendance on the duties of religion was 
 regular and exemplary. In domestic life he 
 appeared peculiarly amiable. Though so much 
 courted in society, he appeared always happiest 
 at home, in the bosom of his family with his 
 grandchildren, and mingling in their youthful 
 sports.
 
 KIND TO AETISTS. 53 
 
 Foreigners and travellers of distinction were 
 ever welcome at the old house of St. Ber- 
 nard's. To young mot who were entering the 
 arduous career of art, he showed himself always 
 a most active and generous friend. Whether 
 acquainted or not, they were welcome to come to 
 him, and were sure of his best advice and 
 assistance. Notwithstanding his extensive en- 
 gagements and pursuits, a large proportion of 
 his time was always spent in rendering these 
 kind offices. When unable to command time 
 during the day, he would engage them to come 
 to him early in the morning. In passing sen- 
 tence on the works of his brother artists, he 
 evinced the most liberal candour ; and, even 
 where unable to bestow praise, was scarcely ever 
 heard to blame. 
 
 The following anecdote aptly illustrates the 
 painter's readiness to give a helping hand to
 
 54 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 artistic genius : One morning, taking his usual 
 walk in his garden, he saw a little hoy holding 
 up a piece of paper to deprecate summary eject- 
 ment, which, on examination, proved to be a 
 well-executed sketch of a Gothic window in the 
 painter's library. The little boy had come over 
 the garden wall, but he had now free access, 
 encouragement, and instruction from Raeburn, 
 which bore good fruit, for the little boy with 
 the bit of paper was David Koberts ! who con- 
 tinued to have a friendly interest in the family 
 as long as he lived. 
 
 Eaeburn had a happy home at St. Bernard's, 
 and Henry, his second son who was married in 
 1812 to the beautiful Charlotte White of Howden 
 and had a family lived with him. From his 
 society his father always derived peculiar gratifi- 
 cation, and, with the affectionate disposition which 
 distinguished him, had entirely adopted his family
 
 MBS. FEEEIEE AT ST. BEEN ABIT S. 55 
 
 as his own. During the whole period of their 
 joint lives they lived under the same roof. 
 
 The late Mrs. Ferrier, widow of Professor 
 Ferrier of St. Andrews, and eldest daughter of 
 Professor Wilson, the renowned " Christopher 
 North," gives the following recollections of St. 
 Bernard's House and the Kaeburn family, when 
 she was a child : 
 
 " More than half a century ago I was fre- 
 quently, in my childhood, at St. Bernard's House, 
 on the banks of the Water of Leith, which were 
 in those days green and smooth to the river's 
 edge. This old house was reached by a broad 
 avenue of trees and shrubbery from Ann Street, 
 where we lived for some years ; this would be 
 about 1820. This interesting old house was 
 surrounded by large green fields, a fine orchard 
 of apple and pear trees, and leading from this was 
 another avenue of old stately elms, part of which
 
 56 SIB HENRY E AUBURN. 
 
 still remain with the rookery in St. Bernard's 
 Crescent. On the right hand of this 'avenue was 
 a nice old garden, well stocked, and with hot- 
 houses. 
 
 " In this ancient mansion lived the Raeburn 
 family, with whom we were very intimate as chil- 
 dren and likewise school companions, though there 
 were some years between our ages. Sir Henry and 
 Lady Kaeburn, and their son and his wife, with 
 three children, comprised the family party at this 
 time. 
 
 " The great portrait-painter, as far as I can 
 recollect him, had a very impressive appearance : 
 his full, dark, lustrous eyes, with ample brow and 
 dark hair at this time somewhat scant. His tall, 
 large frame had a dignified aspect. I can well 
 remember him, seated in an arm-chair in the 
 evening, at the fireside of the small drawing- 
 room, newspaper in his hand, with his family
 
 LADY EAEBUEM. 57 
 
 around him. His usual mode of address to us 
 when spending the evenings, while he held ont 
 his hand with a kind smile, was, 'Well, my 
 dears, what is your opinion of things in general 
 to-day ? ' These words always filled us with 
 consternation, and we all huddled together like 
 a flock of scared sheep, vainly attempting some 
 answer by gazing from one to the other; and 
 with what delight and sense of freedom we were 
 led away to be seated at the tea-table, covered 
 with cookies, bread and butter, and jelly. From 
 this place of security we stole now and then a 
 fearful glance at the arm-chair in which Sir 
 Henry reclined. 
 
 " After tea we were permitted to go away 
 for play to another room, where we made as 
 much noise as we liked, and generally managed 
 to disturb old Lady Eaeburn, not far from the 
 drawing-room, where we had all been at tea, on
 
 58 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 our best behaviour, in the presence of her great 
 husband. This old lady was quite a Character, 
 and always spoke in broad Scotch, then common 
 among the old families, now extinct. I can 
 never forget the manner in which we uproarious 
 children tormented her, flinging open the door 
 of her snug little room, whither she had fled 
 for a little quiet from our incessant provocations 
 and unwearied inventions at amusement, which 
 usually reached the climax by throwing bed- 
 pillows at her and nearly smothering her small 
 figure. At this juncture she would rise up, and, 
 opening the door of a cupboard, would bring out 
 of it a magnificent bunch of grapes, which she 
 endeavoured to divide among us, with these 
 words of entreaty, ' Hoot, hoot, bairns ! here 's 
 some grapes for ye : noo gang awa' an' behave 
 yersel's like gude bairns, an' dinna deave me 
 ony mair.' For a short time the remedy effected
 
 GAMES AT ST. BERNARD'S. 59 
 
 a loll in the storm, which at the least hint was 
 ready to set in with renewed vigour. She would 
 then throw out of a wardrobe shawls, turbans, 
 bonnets, and gear of all sorts and colours, in 
 which we arrayed ourselves to hold our court, 
 Arm Raeburn being often our Qneen. 
 
 "Beyond the walls of the house we used to 
 pass hours of a sunny forenoon in drawing a 
 yellow child's coach, which held two of us, who 
 were, as usual, enveloped in shawls and decorated 
 with feathers and flowers for our masquerading. 
 There was a black pony ; I remember well its 
 being led up and down the long avenue by an 
 old nurse, with some one of the Raeburn children 
 on it. When we were in quieter moods at play 
 we used to go up four or five steps at the end of 
 the passage leading to the great drawing-room, 
 which we seldom entered except on company 
 days. We children never quite felt at our ease
 
 60 SIE HENRY ft AE BURN. 
 
 when we stealthily opened the door of this large 
 apartment; we imagined there might he a ghost 
 somewhere. 
 
 " There was a curious old beggar-man, I must 
 not forget to mention, who was fed and supported 
 by the family, by name Barclay, alias Shelly, so 
 called not from the poet, but from his shelling 
 the peas, and who lived in some outhouse. This 
 old creature was half-witted, and used to sweep 
 the withered leaves from the lawn, manage the 
 pigs, &c. ; short of stature, of a most miserable 
 aspect, on his head an old grey hat crushed over 
 his face, which was grizzly with unshaven beard. 
 He wore a long-tailed coat probably one of Sir 
 Henry's and always had a long stick in his 
 hand. We wished to be very familiar with him, 
 but were never at our ease, owing to his strange 
 appearance and his shuffling gait. He exercised 
 a great fascination over us, and we used to ask
 
 AXTIQUARTS TOWEE. 61 
 
 him to tell us stories, although he was nearly 
 idiotic ' silly,' to use a common Scotch phrase. 
 He often said, as he turned round and pointed 
 to the hanks of the river, * Ou ay, bairns, I can 
 weel remember Adam and Eve skelpin' aboot 
 naket amang the go wans on the braes there.' 
 At times this dirty, uncanny old man got hold 
 of a fiddle, on which he scraped with more energy 
 than success. 
 
 "After Sir Henry's death and our removal 
 from Ann Street, the old honse of St. Bernard's 
 passed into the silence of memory, bnt I have 
 all my life been intimate with the family.*' 
 
 It may be mentioned here that the tower built 
 on the grounds of St. Bernard's by that eccentric 
 but most worthy antiquary, Walter Ross, was 
 demolished in 1825 to make way for Ann Street, 
 and many of its figures and curious devices, 
 together with the door of the ancient " Heart of
 
 62 SIB HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 Midlothian " (the old jail, which was destroyed 
 in 1737 by the Porteous mob), adorn -the walls 
 of Abbotsford they having been placed by Mr. 
 Raeburn, the artist's son, at the disposal of 
 Sir Walter Scott. The ornamental bridge, the 
 beautiful terrace walks and grottoes which led to 
 Deanhaugh House and St. Bernard's, gave place 
 to streets of new houses even before the final 
 demolition of the antiquary's tower. 
 
 The only remnant left of its former ornaments 
 is St. Bernard's Well, with the beautiful little 
 Grecian temple protecting its old and health- 
 giving chalybeate spring. 
 
 Old Deanhaugh House has also been swept away 
 to make room for the extension of Leslie Place. 
 It was the oldest self-contained mansion in the 
 locality a plain, unpretending building of three 
 stories, with its adjacent offices. Yet, in former 
 times, when standing in the midst of its own
 
 DEAXHAUGH HOUSE. 
 
 grounds, its surroundings were very beautiful and 
 picturesque. Standing back a little from the 
 banks of the Water of Leith, a short avenue 
 branching off from the entrance to the house of 
 St. Bernard's led to its principal entrance. Al- 
 though it was a house in no way distinguished 
 either for its antiquity, its architectural beauty, 
 or its dimensions, yet a few particulars regarding 
 some of its former occupants may not be without 
 interest. 
 
 About the middle of the last century it was 
 occupied by James Count Leslie, of Deanhaugh, 
 and afterwards by his widow, who became the 
 wife of Sir Henry Raebnrn. 
 
 Lady Raeburn had by her first husband three 
 children a son, who was accidentally drowned, 
 and two daughters, Jacobina, who married Daniel 
 Vere, of Stonebyres, Sheriff- Substitute of Lanark- 
 shire, and Ann, who married Captain Philip James
 
 64 SIR HENET RAEBURN. 
 
 Inglis, R.N., who died in Calcutta, and left two 
 sons Henry Raeburn Inglis, lately deceased, and 
 Charles James Leslie Inglis, who still survives. 
 Raeburn painted a portrait of his much-cared-for 
 step-grandson, Henry Raeburn Inglis, holding a 
 rabbit, as his diploma picture, now in the private 
 diploma room of the members of the Royal 
 Academy, London. 
 
 Mrs. Ann Inglis, the step-daughter of Raeburn, 
 continued to occupy the old house, along with 
 her two sons. After her death the ground on 
 all sides being much occupied by buildings 
 Deanhaugh House was inhabited by several small 
 families, for many years standing as something 
 that now had no right to be there the new 
 buildings on the south of it and on the east and 
 west hemming it completely in. 
 
 Among the well-known persons connected with 
 Deanhaugh and St. Bernard's was Admiral Deans
 
 OLD SERVANTS. 65 
 
 Dundas, who was born in Deanhaugh House, and 
 was a contemporary and friend of Raeburn's son 
 Henry. Deans Dundas, it will be remembered, 
 after being a Lord of the Admiralty, was 
 naval Commander-in-Chief dnring the Crimean 
 War. 
 
 Old James Brown, who lived in the " Hole 
 i' the waY' a quaint house on the right 
 bank of the Water of Leith the butler at 
 Deanhaugh was indeed a fine specimen of 
 the olden time, and had a rich fund of stories 
 connected with the families of old St. Bernard's 
 and Deanhaugh. James lived to a great 
 age as the trusted and confidential servant 
 of the Raeburn family. James was succeeded 
 at St. Bernard's by George Coombe, just as 
 great an original, who died at Charlesfield, 
 after a faithful service of nearly half a century. 
 
 George might have served as a model to Dean 
 
 5
 
 66 SIB HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 Kamsay of the old butler who, being engaged at 
 the sideboard in carefully decanting a bottle of 
 wine, in response to the simultaneous importunities 
 of a large dinner party to be served, said, " That 's 
 richt, crie a' thegither ; that 's the way to be weel 
 
 served." 
 
 Should there be any still desirous of changing 
 
 the name of Ann Street into Queen Anne 
 Gardens, it may be worth while to remind 
 them that, of the several streets upon the two 
 estates of St. Bernard's and Deanhaugh, the 
 most elevated and the most pleasing in position, 
 and the chosen home of many celebrities, such as 
 Christopher North, De Quincey, and others, was 
 called Ann Street, as a fitting compliment to the 
 artist's fair and clever wife, who was joint pro- 
 prietor with himself of the improving locality 
 lying on the farther side of the Water of Leith, and 
 whose portrait, with that of her husband, lent an
 
 AX* STREET. 7 
 
 additional charm to the Exhibition held in Edin- 
 burgh in the autumn of 1884. 
 
 Nothing could he more inopportune than 
 ignoring the wishes of the greatest resident artist 
 Scotland has produced, and that of his descendants, 
 in favour of a SoTereign hut little known in Scot- 
 land excepting for her farthings, and in no way 
 identified whateTer with the locality in question: 
 and the change proposed at this moment is 
 singularly infelicitous, as a serious movement is 
 about being made to repair an egregious oversight 
 committed by the lovers of Art in Modern Athens 
 by erecting a statue to Baeburn, not only in com- 
 memoration of the lustre which he shed on the 
 e% of his birth by his noble achievements as an 
 artist, but as ft man who was in all respects 
 deserving to be remembered as a most worthy and 
 honoured citizen.
 
 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Raeburn, Member of various Literary and Scientific 
 Societies. Boyal Academician. Proposes Royal Academy 
 in Edinburgh. Regular Contributor to Royal Academy 
 Exhibitions in London. Controversy about Backgrounds. 
 Visit of George IV. to Scotland. Raeburn knighted. 
 Wilkie and Ferguson at St. Bernard's. Banquet to Rae- 
 burn by Artists. Appointed Limner. Invited by His 
 Majesty to London. 
 
 HE merit of Sir Henry was amply 
 ackowledged both by literary socie- 
 ties and those formed for the pro- 
 motion of art. In 1812 he was 
 made President of the Society of Artists in Edin- 
 burgh. In 1814, the Koyal Academy of London, 
 on the occasion of the very first picture sent by 
 him, elected him an Associate. He thus writes, 
 in the same year, to one of his brethren, after-
 
 ACADEMICIAN. 
 
 wards a distinguished member : " I observe what 
 you saj respecting the election of an R.A., but 
 what am I to do here? They know 1 am on 
 their list; if they choose to elect me without 
 solicitation, it will be the more honourable to 
 me, and I will think the more of it ; but if it 
 can only be obtained by means of solicitation 
 and canvassing, I must give np all hopes of it, 
 for I would think it unfair to employ those 
 
 In the following year he was named an Acade- 
 mician. This honour was conferred in a manner 
 quite unprecedented, not having been preceded by 
 any application whatever, while in general it is 
 the result of a very keen canvas; and at this 
 very time, the candidates were particularly nume- 
 rous. As already mentioned, he was in London 
 only three times in his whole life, and it was on 
 this occasion that he paid it his last visit : he
 
 70 SIB HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 was welcomed warmly by all his brethren ; and 
 by none more than by Wilkie. 
 
 He was likewise made a fellow of the Royal 
 Society of Edinburgh, a distinction awarded 
 for his general accomplishments and extra-pro- 
 fessional acquirements, member of the Imperial 
 Academy of Florence, of the New York Academy 
 (1817), and the South Carolina Academy (1821). 
 
 According to what James Ballantine says in 
 his Life of David Roberts, the idea of establish- 
 ing an Academy in Edinburgh, similar to the 
 Royal Academy in London, originated with 
 Raeburu, " but his lamented death deprived the 
 scheme of the benefit of his powerful influence." 
 
 The academic honours which he obtained, 
 though they neither increased his skill of hand, 
 nor inspired him with a new ardour, appear to 
 have extended his already ample practice ; and 
 from that time forward he was a regular con-
 
 HIGHLAND CHIEFS. 71 
 
 tributor to the Royal Academy Exhibition of 
 portraits from the chief families of the North. 
 He became a favourite with all who wore tartan ; 
 and it must be owned that the air of loftiness 
 and rapt-up thought which he bestowed on his 
 heads, suited well with the characters of those 
 mountain chiefs. Macdonnells, Mackenzies, Camp- 
 bells, Bruces, Hays, Scotts, Duffs, Gordons, 
 Douglasses, Hamiltons, The Macnab, and many 
 more, whose names are concealed under the 
 common veil of ladies and gentlemen, in the 
 portraits which appeared in the Royal Academy 
 Exhibition, and attracted much notice. 
 
 Their massive and vigorous style of colouring, 
 and the poetical way of giving much light amid 
 much darkness, distinguished them from all other 
 portraits in the Exhibition. The notice which 
 they obtained, and the feeling that the Metropolis 
 Avas the proper n'eld for a man of genius, induced
 
 ?2 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 Kaeburu, thus late iii life, again to think of 
 establishing himself in London. On this delicate 
 point he consulted Sir Thomas Lawrence, who 
 succeeded in persuading the Reynolds of the North 
 to keep to his own side of the Border. 
 
 Meantime, the older he grew, his knowledge 
 of art and his skill in handling seemed to increase. 
 Critics and connoisseurs united in averring that 
 he had now carried his own peculiar style as 
 high as possible, and all concurred in thinking 
 him second to none in manliness and vigour of 
 mind. Wilkie loved his fine depth of colour ; 
 and Northcote, whom intimacy with Reynolds had 
 made fastidious, declared that Raeburn's style 
 of painting was the happiest of that day. The 
 pictures which called forth these eulogiums were, 
 perhaps, intrinsically second to none exhibited at 
 that period ; they were, moreover, in a new and 
 peculiar style.
 
 BACKGROUNDS. 73 
 
 There were, however, alleged heresies in 
 Raeburn's time, which certain of the Royal 
 Academicians desired to root out. One of 
 them (no donbt Wilkie) addressed him on the 
 subject in a style at once bold and agreeable. 
 "I congratulate you," he said, "on the great 
 improvements which you have made in the back- 
 grounds of your pictures. The spell that has 
 been upon you for many years is broken, and 
 Raeburn is himself again. Your pictures are now 
 altogether beautiful. There is no beautiful head 
 and finely executed figure ruined by a systematic 
 background; everything is in harmony, and your 
 subject has fair play. I wish you could see the 
 difference between your other earlier works and 
 these. I suppose there is no more Prussian blue 
 to be had in Scotland and all your Naples yellow 
 is used up ; or, perhaps, the climate of Edinburgh 
 is altered for the better. I beg you to pardon
 
 74 8 IE HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 this forwardness ; I have ever felt a great interest 
 in your reputation, and been much mortified when, 
 year after year, you persisted in a manner that 
 was so disadvantageous to your fame. Pursue 
 your present plan, and your immortality is certain." 
 In truth, the changes which the writer perceived 
 in the background, had been made in obedience 
 to the reiterated remonstrances of friends in 
 London, and were in accordance with a taste which 
 Raeburn called, without hesitation, corrupt and 
 unnatural. He condemned the alteration, and 
 said he had changed nature for affectation. 
 
 The time was come, however, in the autumn 
 of 1822, when the talents of the artist were 
 to meet a still more brilliant and imposing 
 homage. His Majesty George IV., in the course 
 of that visit which left so many grateful recol- 
 lections in the mind of his Scottish subjects, 
 determined to show his esteem for the line arts
 
 KNIGHTED. 75 
 
 by a special mark of honour conferred on the 
 most distinguished of their professors. This view 
 was happily fulfilled by conferring on Raebnrn 
 the dignity of Knighthood (then more highly 
 esteemed than now). So far was this from 
 having been the result of any application, that 
 Raebura had not the remotest idea of it till the 
 evening before, when he received a letter from 
 Mr. Peel, in the following words : "I beg leave 
 to acquaint you that it is His Majesty's intention 
 to confer on you the honour of knighthood, as 
 a mark of his approbation of your distinguished 
 merit as a painter," and requesting him to meet 
 the King next day at Hopetoun House. The 
 ceremony was performed in the great saloon, amid 
 a numerous assemblage of company of the noblest 
 in Scotland, and with the sword of Sir Alexander 
 Hoic. 
 
 Regarding this event, Sir David Wilkie gives
 
 76 SIX HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 the following account in a letter to his sister, 
 dated 15th September 1822 : 
 
 " You would hear that one of the exercises of 
 the Koyal prerogative in Scotland was to confer 
 the honour of Knighthood upon Mr. Kaeburn 
 and Captain Adam Ferguson. This happened 
 on the day the King left Scotland, and when 
 he was at Hopetoun House. Collins and I, 
 with a variety of others, were invited to dine 
 with Sir Henry Raeburn the day afterwards. 
 Ferguson was there, and we had a most royal 
 jollification. Sir Adam blushed even more than 
 usual upon the occasion of his honours; and 
 the ceremony, as it happened, was told us over 
 and over, with new jokes every time. When 
 dinner was over, we drank to the new-made 
 knights. Sir Henry made a very modest reply, 
 in which he attributed his honours to the kindness 
 and favour of his friends, who were present,
 
 DINNER AT ST. BERNARD'S. 77 
 
 Sir Adam said he could not make so good a 
 speech as his fellow-knight had done, and that 
 he would, if agreeable, sing us a song a pro- 
 posal we receired with acclamation, when he 
 Bang us 'The Laird of Cockpen/ and after- 
 wards, at our request, 'The Turnemspike.' Lady 
 Baehurn would not allow herself to he called 3/y 
 Lady on any account, hut was exceedingly hos- 
 pitable to her guests, and pressed them to eat 
 in the good old-fashioned Scottish style. 
 
 " From St. Bernard's we went to Blair Adam, 
 the seat of the Lord Chief Commissioner, where 
 we were very kindly entertained." 
 
 The honour thus bestowed on the painter, being 
 completely sanctioned by public opinion, conferred 
 equal credit on the giver and the receiver. His 
 brother artists, instead of being moved with any 
 feeling of envy, considered it as a noble tribute, 
 which threw new lustre on themselves and their
 
 78 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 profession. These sentiments they expressed by 
 a public dinner given to Sir Henry on the 5th 
 October. On this occasion Mr. Nasmyth, in 
 name of his brethren, bore testimony to the high 
 satisfaction felt by them at the choice made by 
 His Majesty, and which they founded not more 
 upon the high talent of Sir Henry Raeburn, than 
 upon the many excellencies of his private cha- 
 racter. Sir Henry answered in a dignified and 
 appropriate manner, to the effect that he was 
 glad of their approbation, and had tried to 
 merit it; for he had never indulged in a mean 
 or selfish spirit towards any brother artist, nor 
 had at any time withheld the praise which was 
 due to them when their works happened to be 
 mentioned. 
 
 In the following May, His Majesty appointed 
 him his first "limner and painter in Scotland, 
 with all fees, profits, salaries, rights, privileges
 
 LIMNER TO THE KING. 79 
 
 and advantages thereto belonging." The extent 
 of those rights and privileges, and the value of 
 those fees and profits, this eminent painter un- 
 happily did not live long enough to ascertain. 
 
 The King, when conferring the dignity of 
 Knighthood, had expressed a wish to have a 
 portrait of himself painted by this great artist ; 
 who was, unhappily at the moment, prevented 
 from visiting the Metropolis for the purpose of 
 obeying the Royal commands. And His Majesty 
 was so struck with his fine person and dignified 
 bearing, that he is reported to have said to Sir 
 Walter Scott, who was in constant attendance, 
 that he would have made Raeburn a baronet 
 could he have done so without injustice to the 
 memory of Reynolds.
 
 80 
 
 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 CHAPTEK VI. 
 
 Eaeburn's later Works his best Earl of Hopetouii Earl of 
 Breadalbane Marquis of Huntly Lord Chief Commis- 
 sioner Adam Constable. Portraits painted for him- 
 selfSir W. Scott Lord Jeffrey Earl of Buchan 
 Sir John Sinclair Rennie Mackenzie ("The Man of 
 Feeling") Lord Cockburn, &c. Numerous Engravings 
 of his Works. His last Excursion with Scott, Shepherd 
 and Adam. Scott his last Porti-ait. Illness and Death. 
 Artistic Merits. Public Sympathy. Honours paid to 
 his Memory by Public Institutions in Edinburgh and 
 London. Sir Thomas Lawrence. Sir David Wilkie. 
 Summary of Character. 
 
 re fl ec t; S g rea t honour on the sub- 
 ject of this memoir that he never 
 gave way to those secure and in- 
 dolent habits, which advancing age 
 and established reputation are so apt to engender. 
 He continued, with all the enthusiasm of a 
 student, to seek and to attain further improve-
 
 LATER WOBKS BEST. 81 
 
 inent. The pictures of his two or three last years 
 are unquestionably the best that he ever painted. 
 It is necessary only to adduce, as examples, those 
 of General the Earl of Hopetoun (distinguished 
 for his stature as for his valour), of the Earl of 
 Breadalbane, of Sir John Douglas, the Marquis 
 of Huntly (the last Duke of Gordon), Mrs. 
 Harvey and child, the Lord Chief-Commissioner 
 Adam (sent to Scotland to institute trial by 
 jury), Sir John Hay (of Haystoun), and Mr. 
 Constable (the eminent publisher). 
 
 But perhaps the most interesting part of his 
 recent works consists in a series of half-length 
 portraits of eminent Scotsmen, which, during this 
 period, he executed for his private gratification. 
 They include Sir Walter Scott, Lord Jeffrey 
 (alike distinguished at the Bar and in literature), 
 Mr. F. Homer, the Earl of Buchan, Sir John 
 
 Sinclair, Mr. H. Mackenzie (the author of The 
 
 6
 
 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 Man of Feeling), the Rev. Archibald Alison, 
 Mr. Rennie (the great engineer), Mr. Cockburn 
 (afterwards Lord Cockburn), Grecian Williams, 
 and several others. 
 
 In regard to the first-named great ornament 
 of Scottish literature, it is an interesting circum- 
 stance that his portrait was the very last painted 
 by Sir Henry. Although the form of half-length 
 does not afford scope for the display of his powers 
 in grouping and ornamental accompaniment, the 
 admirable truth with which not only the features, 
 but the intellectual energies and expression of 
 these eminent persons are here delineated, give 
 them an interest much superior to that of ordinary 
 portraits. 
 
 Like Sir Joshua, Raeburn has been well 
 engraved on the whole. The number of his en- 
 graved portraits is remarkable, greater than any 
 British painter except Reynolds, amounting to
 
 NVlfEBO US ENGRA VTNG8. 83 
 
 nearly one hundred and fifty. Bengo's vigorous 
 and crisp graver has rendered worthily Dr. Spens, 
 " Lord of the Unerring Bow," and Charles 
 Turner's brown mezzotint of Sir Walter, and 
 those of Sir Henry Moncreiff and Professor 
 Jardine and Robison and many others, and 
 Walker's stippling of Lord Hopetoun and Scott 
 are masterpieces of art. There is also one head 
 in line by the famous Sharpe, besides Ward 
 (painter of the famous bull) hi mezzotint. 
 
 Although Sir Henry had now nearly reached 
 threescore and ten, yet his vigorous constitution, 
 fortified by habitual temperance, gave a reasonable 
 hope of his being yet for several years preserved 
 to his friends and to the world. These hopes 
 were doomed to be fatally disappointed. He 
 appeared to enjoy the most perfect health, and 
 was just returned from an excursion into Fife- 
 shire with Sir Walter Scott, Miss Edgeworth, 
 
 6 *
 
 84 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 the Chief Baron Shepherd, Sir Adam Ferguson, 
 and a small party of friends united under the 
 auspices of Lord Chief-Commissioner Adam, who 
 had for some years past interposed a parenthesis 
 into the chapter of public business, for the 
 purpose of visiting objects of historical curiosity 
 and interest. 
 
 None of the friends on this occasion seemed 
 more to enjoy the party or its objects than Sir 
 Henry Kaeburn. He showed on all occasions 
 his usual vigour, both of body and intellect, 
 visited with enthusiasm the ancient ruins of Saint 
 Andrews, of Pittenweem, and other remains of 
 antiquity, and contributed much to the hilarity 
 of the party; and no one could have then sup- 
 posed that the lamp which yielded a light so 
 brilliant and agreeable was to be so speedily 
 quenched. 
 
 When he returned to Edinburgh, Sir Walter
 
 SCOTT HIS LAST PORTRAIT. 85 
 
 Scott sat to him in order that Sir Henry might 
 finish two portraits one, already mentioned, for 
 the artist himself, and one for Lord Montague. 
 These were the last pictures which the pencil of 
 this great master ever touched a subject of 
 affectionate regret to the illustrious person 
 represented, who had long been a friend of 
 Baebura. 
 
 Within a day or two afterwards this amiable 
 and excellent man was suddenly affected with 
 a general decay and debility, not accompanied 
 by any visible complaint. This state of illness, 
 after continuing for about a week to baffle all the 
 efforts of medical skill, terminated fatally on the 
 8th July 1823, when he had reached the age of 
 sixty-seven. 
 
 Cunningham appreciates .his artistic talents as 
 follows: "His merits as a portrait-painter are 
 very great. He aimed at elevation and dignity
 
 86 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 of style. He desired to bring out the mental 
 qualities of his sitters, and considered the nice 
 detail of the features as unworthy of a work of 
 art. The distant view he took presented nature 
 to him in its grandest expression, and he caught 
 the ruling passion of the face by taking the broad 
 result and not the detail. This was, no doubt, a 
 dangerous experiment, and succeeded best with 
 heads of natural dignity ; by neglecting the lesser 
 features, all subordinate expression was sunk; it 
 was the application of the historical style to humble 
 purposes, and Baeburn may be accused of con- 
 ferring intellectual dignity upon heads unworthy 
 of such honour. 
 
 "One of his greatest triumphs is in his last 
 portrait of Sir Walter Scott. The face of this 
 illustrious man is far from expressing his powers 
 when you are at his elbow; but the distance at 
 which Kaeburn sought the character lent enchant-
 
 PUBLIC SYMPATHY. 87 
 
 ment at once, and in the light and shade of his 
 masses the author of Marmio* and Old Mortality 
 appealed. 9 
 
 His decease excited the strongest sympathy, not 
 only among the Mends of Sir Henry, but through- 
 out the public in general. The professors of the 
 art felt, of course, an interest and sorrow peculiarly 
 deep ; and it was anxiously suggested, by several 
 of the most eminent among them, that the remains 
 of this great artist should he honoured with a 
 public funeral. Although it was universally 
 acknowledged that this honour was due, circum- 
 stances prevented the accomplishment of their 
 h. 
 
 On the 10th July, however, a meeting was 
 held of the Boyal Institution for the Encourage- 
 ment of the Fine Arts in Scotland, and, with the 
 Lord ProTOst in the chair, resolutions were passed 
 expressing that the Meeting had with the most
 
 SIB HENRY EAEBUEN. 
 
 profound regret received the communication of the 
 death of Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A.; and His 
 Majesty's Painter for Scotland ; an event to be 
 deplored, not more on account of the private 
 virtues of that great artist, than of the pre- 
 eminence to which he had arrived in that branch 
 of the profession to which he had devoted his rare 
 and distinguished talents, and which had mainly 
 contributed to the reputation of the art in that 
 quarter of the empire; and testifying their abso- 
 lute persuasion that the progress of the art itself 
 must be most materially retarded in that country 
 by his sudden and premature death. 
 
 In London, though Sir Henry was compara- 
 tively much less known there, an equally strong 
 sensation was produced. At a meeting of the 
 Royal Academy, held on the 14th July, Sir 
 Thomas Lawrence lamented the melancholy task 
 which had devolved upon him, of officially an-
 
 CHARACTER. 
 
 nouncing to his brethren the death of one of their 
 most distinguished Members. He expressed his 
 high admiration for the talents of the deceased, 
 and his unfeigned respect for that high feeling 
 and gentleman -like conduct which had conferred 
 a dignity on him self and the art which he pro- 
 fessed. His loss, Sir Thomas conceived, had left 
 a blank in the Royal Academy which could not 
 be filled up. This unusual tribute excited the 
 visible sympathy of all present, and Sir David 
 (then Mr.) Wilkie, as a native of Scotland, took 
 occasion to express his grateful feelings for the 
 honour thus done to his country and his friend. 
 
 "Honest Allan Cunningham" sums up his 
 personal character thus : " The character of 
 Eaeburn appears to have been every way 
 unblemished ; he was a candid, modest man, 
 ever ready to aid merit, and give a helping 
 hand to genius in art. His varied knowledge,
 
 90 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 his agreeable manners, his numerous anecdotes, 
 and his general conversation, at once easy and 
 unaffected, with now and then a touch of humo- 
 rous gaiety, made him a delightful companion : 
 he told a Scotch story with almost unrivalled 
 naivete of effect; and did the honours of a 
 handsome house and elegant table with all the 
 grace of a high-bred gentleman. Through life 
 he discharged, with blameless attention, all the 
 duties of a good citizen. His pencil never kept 
 him from his place in church on Sunday, and 
 in the days of trouble he was a zealous volun- 
 teer. First and last, among all the children of 
 art, no one was ever more widely respected than 
 Sir Henry Raeburn ; and his tall handsome 
 figure, and fine open manly countenance, will not 
 be forgotten for many a day * in the place 
 which knew him.' "
 
 FAMILY. 
 
 CHAPTER YH. 
 
 Lady Eaeburn. Sir Henrj's Sons, Peter and Heni\. 
 Howden. Charksfield. Dr. John Brown's rial, De- 
 Tqrtinn of House and Pictures. Baeburn Exhibition in 
 1876. 
 
 ADY RAEBURN, older than her 
 husband, survived him for ten 
 years. Two sons were horn 
 
 of this marriage. Peter, the 
 
 eldest, died about nineteen years of age, after 
 having evinced great artistic genius; he painted 
 a most impressive and interesting portrait of 
 himself, which he presented as a last gift to 
 his mother. Henry, the younger son of Dean-
 
 92 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 haugh and St. Bernard's, who, although he did 
 not inherit the artistic genius of his father, had a 
 great love of art and artists, survived his parents 
 many years, and lived to a good old age. He 
 acquired by marriage with Miss White the estate 
 of Howden, and by purchase that of Charles- 
 field. Elizabeth, the first-born of this mar- 
 riage, died in childhood, and is immortalized 
 by her grandfather in an exquisite picture 
 described farther on ; but three sons and four 
 daughters survived their parents. The sons died 
 without issue. 
 
 While the youngest son was in possession of 
 Charlesfield, Dr. John Brown visited the place, 
 and records his impressions in the " Works of 
 Sir Henry Baeburn," published by Mr. Elliot, 
 as follows : 
 
 "It is a snug, old Scotch house near Mid- 
 Calder, on a burn of its own. ... I shall never
 
 (7HJLBLESPTELD. 
 
 forget it, nor the kindness of the three Mends 
 who showed me their cherished treasures, and 
 who inherit the simplicity, heartiness, and glow- 
 ing rich eyes of their grandfather. The honse 
 is oyerrun with the choicest Raeburas. . . . 
 In the dining-room are the heads of his familiars, 
 whose fall portraits he had done painted from 
 lore and for himself. I question if any such 
 record of pictorial genius and friendship exists. 
 The walls are literally covered. . . . The 
 drawing-room is crowded with perfections. When 
 yon enter, above the fire-place is his own incom- 
 parable portrait, than which as our President of 
 the Royal Scottish Academy says no better por- 
 trait exists ; it glorifies the little room, and is in 
 perfect condition ; the engraving gives no fall idea 
 of the glow of the great dark eyes, the mastery 
 of touch, the ardour and power of the whole 
 expression. Opposite him is his dear little
 
 94 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 wife, comely, and sweet and wise, sitting in 
 the open air with a white head-dress,, her face 
 away to one side of the picture, her shapely, 
 hare, unjewelled arms and hands lying crossed 
 on her lap. . . . 
 
 " In the corner is the gem of all, a little 
 oval picture of Eliza Raeburn, his eldest grand- 
 daughter, who died at six ; there she is 
 lovely, her lucid hlue eyes, her snowy bosom, 
 her little mouth, just open enough to indicate 
 the milk-white teeth, the sunny hair, the straight- 
 forward gaze, the sweetness ! It is not possible 
 to give in words the beauty of this ; Corregio or 
 Giorgione need not have been ashamed of it, 
 and there is a depth of human expression I 
 have never seen in them ; she was her grand- 
 father's darling, and she must be of everyone 
 who looks at her, though she has been fifty 
 years in her grave,"
 
 EXHIBITION IN 1876. 95 
 
 The eldest of the four surviving daughters is 
 married to Sir William Andrew, and is the 
 present possessor of Charlesfield. The three 
 celebrated pictures by Baeburn his own portrait, 
 that of Lady Raebura, and of their son on the 
 grey pony are now at 29, Bryanston Square. 
 London, in their possession. 
 
 Like the recent exhibition of the pictures of Sir 
 John Millais, the exhibition of Raeburn's works in 
 Edinburgh in 1876, was the crowning triumph of 
 the master. The Painter's reputation, taken as a 
 whole, emerged with additional lustre from the 
 severe test imposed upon it by such a public 
 examination, leaving the impression of extra- 
 ordinary talent, of almost unrivalled artistic 
 faculty, and of incessant and fruitful labour, 
 continued to the end with unabated vigour and 
 genius. Many of his finest portraits were absent, 
 but the number exhibited amounted to 325, which
 
 96 SIR HENRY RAEBURN. 
 
 number appears in the history of art to be without 
 parallel. (A list is appended.) 
 
 That so much masterly work should have come 
 from one man's hand is matter for wonder ; that 
 the hand should be that of a Scotchman is 
 matter for pride and rejoicing on the north 
 side of the Border, and especially in the City 
 of his birth.
 
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 Walter Scott, Laid 
 
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 -._,
 
 100 APPENDIX. 
 
 3 ADAM, EIGHT HON. WILLIAM, of Blair-Adam, Lord- 
 
 Lieutenant of Kinrosshire, Lord Chief Commissioner 
 of the Jury Court of Scotland, a Bencher of Lincoln's 
 Inn ; married, 1777, the Hon. Eleanora Elphinston, 
 daughter of Charles, tenth Lord Elphinston, a sister 
 of Admiral Lord Keith, by whom (she died 1800) he 
 had a numerous family ; he died 1839. 
 Lent by the Baeburn Family. 
 
 4 ALISON, REV. ARCHIBALD, Minister of the Episcopal 
 
 Church, Edinburgh ; Prebendary of Sarum ; author 
 of Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, &c. ; 
 married, 1782, Dorothea, daughter of Dr. John 
 Gregory, Professor of the Theory of Medicine in 
 the University of Edinburgh (Father of Dr. James 
 Gregory, No. 135) ; Mr. Alison was the father of 
 Sir Archibald Alison, bart , D.C.L., F R.S., the 
 eminent lawyer and historian, who was born 1792 
 and died 1867 (his son is the distinguished General 
 Sir Archibald Alison), and of William Pulteney 
 Alison, M.D., LL.D., F.E.S., Professor of the Prac- 
 tice of Medicine in Edinburgh "University, and first 
 Physician to Her Majesty in Scotland. Mr. Alison 
 died in 1837. 
 
 Lent by the Baeburn Family. 
 
 5 ALLAN, ALEXANDER, Banker. 
 
 Lent by Lieut.-Col. William Allan, 4,1st (Welsh) 
 
 6 ALLAN, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GEORGE. 
 
 Lent by Lieut.-Col. William Allan, 4lst (Welsh) 
 Regiment,
 
 LIST Of WORKS. 101 
 
 , ROBEKT, Banker. 
 Ltmt by Mia AOam. 
 
 AIAAS, Mas., with Daughter. 
 
 Lent by LiemL-CL William Ml**, 
 
 AjrmoEBoar, Jora, of Inch yra. 
 Lemt by Mn. Amdeno*. DA 
 
 10 Anriiririra, MK&, of Inehjra. 
 LadbyJokmA. Wood, E^. 
 
 LOM>. (See HOMTMAST, No. 150 ) 
 
 11 BALFOIFB, JAJOBB ("Jamie"), singing Toddlin* Hame" ; 
 an enthosixstie Jacobite, h^Tiag been in the Rebellion 
 of 1745. Fainted for the Lath Golfers' HalL 
 
 Lad by Cobmd BaKmgtom. 
 
 12 BAvarATOTB, SIR WiuxAX MACLEOD (Lord 
 
 trne) ; born 1743 ; admitted Adroeate, 1765; 
 of College of Justice 1799; resigned his seat on the 
 Bench, and Knighted 1823; died 1833. 
 LaU by Sn-DamUlMacmee, PJL&4. 
 
 13 BEDFORD, Jora, Snrn DITKB OF, K.G.; born 1766; 
 
 married, 1st, 1786, Georgian* Elisabeth, second 
 daughter of George, fourth Viscount Torrington, 
 and bj her had, with other issue, Francis, after- 
 Duke, and John Earl Russell, the
 
 102 APPENDIX. 
 
 distinguished statesman, orator, and writer, who 
 was born 1792 and died 1878. The Duchess died 
 1801. The Duke married, 2ndly, 1803, Georgiana, 
 fifth daughter of Alexander, fourth Duke of Gordon, 
 and of the famous Duchess, and by her had issue ; 
 her Grace died 1853 ; his Grace died 1839. 
 
 Lent by the Bight Hon. W. P. Adam, of Blair-Adam, 
 M.P. 
 
 14 BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH; born at Edinburgh 1770; 
 passed Advocate 1791; Professor of Scots Law, 
 University of Edinburgh ; Clerk of Session 1831 ; 
 wrote the celebrated Commentaries on the Law of 
 Scotland, &c. ; died 1843. 
 
 Lent by the Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh. 
 
 15 BELL, EGBERT; born 1782; Advocate; Sheriff of 
 Berwickshire ; Procurator of Church of Scotland ; 
 died 1861. 
 
 Lent by Lord Moncrei/ of Tullibole {Lord Justice 
 Cleric). 
 
 16 BELL, MRS. EGBERT (Eleanora Jane Eoss) ; born 1789 ; 
 daughter of Colonel Andrew Eoss ; wife of above ; 
 died 1831. 
 
 Lent by Lord Moncrei/ of Tullibole (Lord Justice 
 Clerk). 
 
 17 BLACK, JOHN, M.D., Kirkcaldy ; died 1799. 
 Lent by Mrs. Hunter.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 103 
 
 18 BLACK, JOSEPH, M.D. ; born at Bordeaux of Scotch 
 parents 1728 ; educated at Belfast, Glasgow, and 
 Edinburgh; M.D. 1754; succeeded Dr. Cullen in 
 Glasgow Chair of Chemistry 1756 ; and in his 
 Edinburgh Chair 1766 ; investigated the subject of 
 "Latent Heat" 1759-63; died 1799; his Elements 
 of Chemistry published in 1803. 
 
 Lent by Sir George Warrender, Bart. 
 
 19 BLAIB, A^TE, Eldest daughter of the Eight Hon. 
 Eobert Blair of Avontoun, Lord President of the 
 Court of Session, and wife of the second Lord 
 Meadowbank (No. 220) : at age 34. Painted 1818. 
 Lent by Allan A. Maconochie Welwood, Esq., of 
 Meadowbank. 
 
 20 BLAIE, EEV. HUGH, D.D., eminent divine; born 1718; 
 educated at Edinburgh University ; Minister of the 
 High Church ; instituted Chair of Ehetoric and 
 Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh, was 
 first Professor 1760; wrote well-known Sermons 
 1770-1800, Dissertation concerning Ossian 1762 ; died 
 1800. 
 
 Lent by Henry Temple Blair, Esq., of Avontoun. 
 
 21 BLAIE, EIGHT Hov. EOBEET, of Avontoun, Linlith- 
 gowshire ; borii 1741 ; educated at Edinburgh High 
 School ; Advocate 1764 ; Dean of Faculty 1808 ; Lord 
 President of Court of Session 1808; died 1811. 
 Painted in May 1811. 
 Lent by the Society of Writers to H.M. Signet.
 
 104 APPENDIX. 
 
 22 BLAIR, MASTER WILLIAM, of Avontoun, son of above ; 
 
 passed Advocate 1821; died 1873. Painted about 
 1814. 
 
 Lent by Miss Cornelia Blair, Scotstown. 
 
 23 BONAR, ALEXANDER, of Ratho, third son of John, 
 
 titular Baron of Keltye, and tenth Laird of Kil- 
 graston ; born 1750 ; acquired the lands of Ratho, 
 and was succeeded therein in 1789 by his son John. 
 Lent by A. B. Fleming, Esq. 
 
 24 BONAR, MRS. 
 
 Lent by A. B. Fleming, Esq. 
 
 25 BOOTHBY, SIR BROOKE, seventh Baronet, a minor poet, 
 
 and of the literary circle at Lichfield, of which Miss 
 Seward, Dr. Darwin, and Edgeworth, were dis- 
 tinguished members; author of Fables and Satires, 
 and other works ; married Susanna, daughter and sole 
 heiress of Robert Bristoe, of Hampshire, and had an 
 only child, Penelope, who died young. Sir Brooke 
 died in 1824, and was succeeded by his brother 
 William. 
 
 Lent by James T. Gibson-Craig, Esq. 
 
 26 BOSWALL, THOMAS, of Blackadder. Painted about 
 
 1822. His daughter and heiress, Eupheinia, was 
 married in 1847 to Sir George Augustus Frederick 
 Houston, who thereupon assumed the additional 
 surname of Boswall. 
 
 Lent by Sir Geo. A. F. Houston Boswall, Bart. 
 
 7 BOSWALL, MRS., of Blackadder. Painted about 1822. 
 Lent by Sir Geo. A. F. Houston Boswall, Bart.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 105 
 
 28, 29 BOY, TWO STUDIES OF A. 
 
 Lad by fa Saeburn Family. 
 
 30 BOY WITH CHKKEEKS, STUDY OF A. 
 
 Lent by the Eaeburn Family. 
 
 31 BKAIDWOOD, WILLIAM, first Manager of the Caledonian 
 
 Insurance Company. 
 
 Lent by ike Director* of the Caledonian 
 Company. 
 
 BBAXFEBIO), LORD. (See MACQUEKX, No. 212.) 
 
 32 BRKMX KB, JAKES, Solicitor of Stamps for Scotland ; 
 
 died 1826 in his 80th year; First President of 
 Society of Solicitors before the Supreme Courts. 
 Lent by ike 8. 8. C. Society. 
 
 33 B&EWSTBB, 8m DAVID, K.H., D.C.L. ; born 1781; 
 
 educated at Edinburgh University for the Church; 
 commenced Edinburgh Encyclopedia 1806, continued 
 till 1830; invented polyzonal lens for lighthouses 
 and the kaleidoscope and lenticular stereoscope; 
 wrote Depolarisatio* of Light 1813, Optic* 1831, 
 Letters on Natural Magic 1831, More World* than 
 One 1854 ; Knighted 1832 ; Principal of the United 
 College of St Andrews; Principal of Edinburgh 
 University 1860; died 1868. 
 Lett by the Baebum Family. 
 
 34 BBUCK, ROBKKT, of Kennet, Clackmannan, M.P. for 
 
 county Clackmannan ; born 1795 ; married, 1st, 1825, 
 Anne, daughter of William Murray, of Tonchadam 
 and Polmaise, in Stirlingshire, by whom he had no
 
 106 APPENDIX. 
 
 issue ; and 2ndly, 1848, Jane Dalrymple Hamilton, 
 daughter of Sir James Eergusson, Bart., by whom he 
 left at his decease, 1868, a son, Alexander Hugh, 
 afterwards Lord Balfour of Burleigh by the removal 
 of the attainder, and a daughter, Henrietta Anne, to 
 whom Her Majesty, by warrant in 1870, granted the 
 rank and precedence of a Baron's daughter. Painted 
 about 1815. 
 
 Lent by Lord Balfour of Burleigh. 
 
 35 BUCHAN, DAVID STEUART, EARL OF, sixth of the 
 
 house of Erskine, but the eleventh from the period 
 when the earldom was conferred upon James Steuart, 
 son of Sir James Steuart, the Black Knight of Lorn, 
 by his wife Jane, Queen of Scotland, widow of 
 James I. and mother of James II. ; born 1742 ; 
 married, 1771, Margaret, eldest daughter of William 
 Eraser, of Fraserfield, Aberdeen shire, but by her 
 (who died 1819; had no issue. The Earl was a 
 friend of Burns ; he died 1629, and was succeeded by 
 his nephew, Henry David Erskine. 
 Lent by the Raeburn Family. 
 
 36 BUCHAN, ROBERT. Painted in 1823. 
 
 Lent by his Niece, Mrs. Henderson. 
 
 37 BUCHANAN, REV. WALTER, D.D., Minister of Canon- 
 
 gate ; died 1832. 
 Lent by Robert Foulis, Esq., M.D. 
 
 38 BUCHANAN, MRS. 
 
 Lent by Robert Foulis, Esq., M.D.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 107 
 
 BTTCHAJTAS, Mss., of Arnprior. (See EDMOJTOSTOJTE, 
 No. 96.) 
 
 39 BTERS, JAMES, of Tonley, Aberdeenshire ; antiquary ; 
 resided abroad many years : left a posthumous work 
 entitled Hypogtri, describing archaological researches 
 in Etruria, which was edited bj F. Howard, 1812. 
 Lent by He Baebnrn family. 
 
 40 CAMPBELL, COLOJTEL ALEXANDER, of 
 
 Lad by a. Madaeklam, Esq., of Castle Lzthl**. 
 
 41 CAMPBELL, MKS., of Poad. 
 
 Lad by G. MadaMa*, Eq. t of Castle LaeUa*. 
 
 42 CAMPBELL, MBS. COLES, of Park. 
 
 Lett by F. Madadtian, E^., of Cattle LacUam, 
 
 43 CAMPBELL, LO&D FKEDKBICK, son of the fourth Duke 
 
 of Argyll; born about 1736; married, 1769, Mary, 
 daughter of Amos Meredith, and widow of Lawrence, 
 fourth Eari Ferrers, but had no issue; M.P. for 
 Glasgow Burghs 1761-74; for Argyll County 1780- 
 99; Priry Councillor 1765: Lord Clerk Begister 
 1768 ; founded Begister House, Edinburgh ; thanked 
 bj Court of Session for services ; died 1816. 
 Lent by H. M. General Begister House. 
 
 44 CAMPBELL, LADY HUMS, of Marchmont, Berwickshire, 
 
 with infant son ; wife of Sir William Hume Camp- 
 bell, sixth Baronet, who was born 1767, and assumed
 
 108 APPENDIX. 
 
 the surname of Hume-Campbell, according to the 
 Will of Hugh, last Earl of Marchmont (his grand- 
 uncle), who died in 1792, without male issue ; Sir 
 William died in 1833, leaving an only child, Hugh, 
 the seventh Baronet. 
 
 Lent by Sir Hugh Hiwne-Campbell, Bart., of March- 
 mont. 
 
 45 CAMPBELL, JOHN, Senr. 
 
 Lent by G. Maclachlan, Esq., of Castle Lachlan. 
 
 46 CAMPBELL, MBS., Senr. 
 
 Lent by G. Maclachlan, Esq., of Castle Lachlan. 
 
 47 CAMPBELL, Father of the late Hobert N. Campbell, of 
 Kailzie. 
 
 Lent by G. Maclachlan, Esq., of Castle Lachlan. 
 
 48 CAMPBELL, of Park. 
 
 Lent by G. Maclachlan, Esq., of Castle Lachlan. 
 
 CAMPERDOWN, VISCOUNT. (See LORD DUNCAN, No. 83.) 
 
 49 CARNEGIE, DAVID, third son of Sir John Carnegie, of 
 
 Pittarrow, by his wife Mary, daughter of Sir 
 Thomas Burnett, of Leys. 
 
 Lent by James Carnegie, Esq., Jtis Nephew. 
 
 50 CATHCART, EGBERT, W.S. Painted in 1812 or 1813. 
 
 Lent by Miss Cathcart.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 109 
 
 51 CAY, EOBEET HODSHON, of North Charlton, North- 
 
 umberland; born 1758; one of the judges of the 
 Consistorial Court, and Judge of the High Court 
 of Admiralty in Scotland ; married Elizabeth, 
 daughter of John Liddell, of North Shields. 
 Painted about 1810. 
 Lent by John Gay, Esq. 
 
 52 CAY, MRS. JOHN, of North Charlton, mother of Judge 
 
 Cav ; daughter of Ralph Hodshon, of Lintz. Painted 
 in 1810. 
 
 Lent by John Cay, Esq. 
 
 53 CHALMERS, GEORGE, of Pittencrieff. 
 
 Lent by Magistrates and Town Council of Dunferm- 
 line. 
 
 54 CHILD, PORTRAIT OF A. 
 
 Lent by the Raeburn Family. 
 
 55 CHILD, STUDY OF A. 
 
 Lent by the Baeburn Family. 
 
 56 CHILDREN AND LADY. Children by Raeburn, Lady 
 
 (Mrs. Raeburn, Sir Henry's daughter-in-law) painted 
 after his death by Sir J. Watson Gordon. 
 Lent by the Raeburn Family. 
 
 CLERK, MRS. ISABELL. (See WKDDBRBURN, No. 314.) 
 
 57 CLERK, SIR JOHN, of Penicuik, county Edinburgh, 
 
 fifth Baronet, and LADY CLERK ; died 1798 without 
 issue, and was succeeded by his nephew George,
 
 110 APPENDIX. 
 
 who was M.P. for many years, and prominent as a 
 public man. The Clerks of Penicuik are descended 
 from John Clerk, who was proprietor of .the lands of 
 Kilhuntly, in Badenoch, and, having attached himself 
 to the party of the unfortunate Mary, Queen of Scot- 
 land, in opposition to his superior, the Earl of Huntly, 
 was obliged to leave that part of the country in 1568. 
 Lent by Sir George Douglas Clerk, Bart. 
 
 58 CLERK, JOHN, Advocate, afterwards Lord Eldin. An 
 
 earlier portrait than the following. 
 
 Lent by Sir George Douglas Clerk, Bart. 
 
 59 CLERK, JOHN (Lord Eldin), son of John Clerk of 
 
 Eldin (No. 60); born 1757; admitted to the Bar 
 1785; Senator of the College of Justice; died 1832. 
 
 Lent by Sir William Gibson-Craig, Bart., of Ric- 
 carton. 
 
 60 CLERK, JOHN, F.B.S., of Eldin; born about 1736; 
 
 father of Lord Eldin; author of Essay on Naval 
 Tactics ; inventor of the naval tactic of breaking the 
 enemy's line, employed by Rodney's fleet in West 
 Indies in 1782 ; died 1812. 
 
 Lent by Sir George Douglas Clerk, Bart. 
 
 61 COCKBTTRN, HENRY LORD ; born at Edinburgh 1779 ; 
 
 educated at High School and Univei-sity ; passed 
 Advocate 1800; Advocate-Deputo 1806; Solicitor- 
 General 1830; Lord Rector of Glasgow University 
 1831 ; raised to the Bench 1834 ; contributor to 
 Edinburgh Review ; wrote "Memorials '' of his times ; 
 died 1854. 
 
 Lent by the Raeburn Family.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. Ill 
 
 61 COLT, ROBERT, of Auldhame, Haddingtonshire, and 
 LADY (iliss Dundas), and of Inveresk, Edinburgh- 
 shire, and Gartsherrie, Lanarkshire; born 1756; 
 married 1778 Grace, daughter of the Right Hon. 
 Robert Dundas, of Arniston, Lord President of the 
 Court of Session (No. &5) ; she died 1798; he died 
 1797. 
 
 Lettt by Mrs. Jane Colt, Sen., of Gartsherrie. 
 
 63 CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD, publisher; born at Kellie 
 
 1775 ; bookseller in Edinburgh 1795 ; published first 
 number of Edinburgh Review 1802, Sir W. Scott's 
 Poetry 1806, Waverley Novels 1814 ; died 1827. Con- 
 stable's Miscellany was the pioneer of the various 
 " Libraries " of cheap books. Painted about 1822. 
 Lent by Thomas Constable, Esq., Queen's Printer. 
 
 64 " COJTTEMPLATIOH," a Lady (Mrs. Johnstone). 
 
 Lent by the Raeburn Family. 
 
 65 CRAIG, SIR JAMBS GIBSON, BART., of Riccarton, Mid- 
 
 lothian ; born 1765 ; son of William Gibson, merchant, 
 Edinburgh ; W. S. 1786 ; prominent advocate of Re- 
 form, and in Whig movements of his time ; married, 
 1796, Anne, daughter of J. Thomson of Edinburgh ; 
 created Baronet 1831 ; died 1850, being succeeded by 
 his eldest son William (No. 67). Sir James assumed 
 the additional surname and arms of Craig in virtue 
 of the entail made in 1818 by Robert Craig of 
 Riccarton. 
 Lent by Sir William Gibson-Craig, Bart., of Bic-
 
 112 APPENDIX. 
 
 66 CRAIG, LADY GIBSON. 
 
 Lent by Sir William Gibson-Craig, Bart., of Ric- 
 carton. 
 
 67 CRAIG, WILLIAM GIBSON, of Eiccarton, afterwards 
 
 2nd Baronet, P.C.; born 1797 ; married, 1840, Betsy 
 Sarah, daughter of J. H. Vivian, M.P., of Singleton ; 
 for some years a Lord of the Treasury ; Lord Clerk 
 Register and Keeper of the Signet ; M.P. for county 
 and city of Edinburgh ; died 1878 ; succeeded by his 
 son James Henry. Painted about 1818. 
 
 Lent by Sir William Gibson-Craig, Bart., of Ric- 
 carton. 
 
 68 CRAIG, WILLIAM (Lord Craig), Senator of the College 
 
 of Justice; died 1813, aged 68. Painted about 
 1810. 
 
 Lent by Andrew Hay Wilson, Esq. 
 
 69 CRAIG, MRS. 
 
 Lent by the Rev. John Weir. 
 
 - CRAIGIE-HALKETT. (See HALKETT, No. 137.) 
 
 70 CRAWFORD, MR., Merchant, Glasgow. 
 
 Lent by the Right Hon. the Lord Justice-General. 
 
 CRICHTON, LADY ELIZABETH PENELOPE (with her 
 mother, Countess of Dumfries, No. 81) ; daughter 
 of Patrick Macdowal, fifth Earl of Dumfries (No. 
 82) ; married to John, Viscount Mountstuart, eldest
 
 LIST OF WOSK8. 113 
 
 son of John, fourth Earl and first Marquis of Bate, 
 and, dying in the lifetime of her father, left two sons, 
 the elder of whom, John, inherited the Earldom of 
 Dumfries 1803, and the Marquisate of Bute 1814. 
 Lent by the Marquis of Bute. 
 
 71 DALZEI., ANDREW, Professor of Greek in the Uni- 
 Teraty of Edinburgh ; born 1742 ; died 1806. 
 Lent by the Baebvrn Family. 
 
 .72 DATIDSOX, RET. THOMAS, D.D., of Muirhouse; died in 
 1827, iged SI. 
 Lent by Mr. Davidson, of Muirhouse. 
 
 73 DETTCHAB, DATID, of Morningside (Miniature). 
 
 Lent % Miss Dettchar. 
 
 74 DICKSON, REV. ROBERT, D.D., Minister of South Leith ; 
 
 died 1824, aged 66. 
 
 Lent by Kirl Session of South Leith. 
 
 75 DOG, STUDY OF A. 
 
 Lent by MaiOand Wardrop, Esq. 
 
 76 DOUGLAS, RET. ROBKRT, D.D., Minister of Galashiels ; 
 
 died 1820 in his 74th year. Painted in 1813. 
 Lenibythe Mines Thomson. 
 
 77 DRUIOCOKD, GEXEEAL, of Machanaj. Painted before 
 
 1817. 
 
 Lent by J. Buchanan BaiRie Hamilton, Esq., of Am- 
 prior and Cambntmore. 
 
 8
 
 114 APPENDIX. 
 
 78 DRUMMOND, HAKLEY. 
 
 Lent by T. Macknight Crawford, Esq., of Cartsburn. 
 
 79 DRUMMOND, CAPTAIN J., E.N. 
 
 Lent by Sir James H. Williams Drummond, Bart., of 
 Hawthornden. 
 
 80 DRUMMOND, LADY, of Hawthornden, Midlothian ; Mary, 
 
 daughter of Dr. Ogilvie, of Murtle, a lineal descen- 
 dant of Sir John Drummond, first of Hawthornden, 
 and heiress, by special settlement, of her cousin, Mrs. 
 Barbara Drummond (who died without issue in 1789, 
 wife of Dr. William Abernethy Drummond, and only 
 daughter and heiress of William Drummond, of Haw- 
 thornden) ; married Captain John Forbes, E.N"., who 
 then assumed the additional surname and arms of 
 Drummond ; Captain Forbes-Drummond was created 
 a Baronet 1826 for distinguished naval service, with 
 remainder to his son-in-law, the husband of his only 
 daughter ; he died 1829. 
 
 Lent by Sir James H. Williams Drummond, Bart., 
 of Hawthornden. 
 
 81 DUMFRIES, MARGARET, COUNTESS OF, (with her 
 
 daughter, Lady Elizabeth Penelope Crichton, which 
 see,) daughter of Eonald Crauford, of Eestalrig, 
 county Edinburgh; married, 1771, Patrick Macdowal, 
 of Freugh, fifth Earl of Dumfries. (See next.) 
 Lent by the Marquis of Bute. 
 
 82 DUMFRIES, PATRICK MACDOWAL, FIFTH EARL OF, of 
 
 Freugh, (with Flora, Countess of Loudon, which see,) 
 son of Elizabeth, sister of William, fourth Earl, who
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 115 
 
 died in 1768 without issue ; married, 1771, Margaret 
 Cranford (No. 81); died 1803; succeeded by his 
 grandson John, second Marquis of Bute. (Sec LADY 
 ELIZABETH PKTKLOPE CKICHTOX.) 
 
 Lad by the Marqui* of Bute. 
 
 AmmtAT. (ADAM) LORD, second son of 
 Alexander Duncan, Provost of Dundee; born 1731; 
 entered the navy 1746; married, 1777, Henrietta, 
 second daughter of the Bight Hon. Robert Dundas, 
 of Amiston, Lord President of the Court of Session 
 (No. 85) ; distinguished under Rodney at Cape St. 
 Vincent against Don Juan de Langara 1750 : Bear- 
 Admiral of the Blue 1787 ; under Admiral De Winter, 
 defeated the Dutch at Camperdown 1797 ; thanked on 
 board his ship by George ELL, and by both Houses 
 of Parliament; created in the same rear Baron 
 Duncan of Lundie and Viscount Duncan of Camper- 
 down ; City of London gave him the freedom and a 
 sword; died 1804, and was succeeded by his elder 
 son, Robert Dundas, who acquired the Earldom in 
 1831 ; his second daughter Henrietta married, 1804, 
 Sir James Fergusson, Bart., of Kilkerran. 
 
 Lent by fa Incorporation of tke Trinity Ho***, LtXh. 
 
 84 DUHCAS, ANDREW, Senr., MJ>. ; born 1744 ; educated, 
 and lectured on Medicine, at Edinburgh ; President 
 of College of Physicians 1790; Professor of Medi- 
 cine, Edinburgh University; first Physician to the 
 King for Scotland 1821; wrote A*maU of Medical 
 Science, Ac. ; died 1828. Painted about 1819. 
 
 Lent by ike Royal College of Physician*.
 
 116 APPENDIX. 
 
 85 DUNDAS, EGBERT, of Arniston, Midlothian, second 
 
 Lord President of the Court of Session of that name, 
 son of the first Lord President Duirdas by his first 
 wife, and half brother to Viscount Melville (No. 221) ; 
 M.P. for Midlothian ; married, 1st, Henrietta, daughter 
 of Sir James Carmichael ; their daughter Henrietta 
 was married to Adam, first Viscount Duncan (No. 83) ; 
 he married, 2ndlv, Jean, daughter of William Grant 
 (Lord Prestongrange), and had by her, with other 
 issue, Robert, his heir (No. 87), and Grace, married 
 to Robert Colt, of Auldhame (No. 61) ; died 1787. 
 Painted about 1787. 
 
 Lent by Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston. 
 
 86 DUNDAS, MRS., of Arniston. Painted about 1793. 
 
 Lent by Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston. 
 
 87 DUNDAS, ROBERT, of Arnistou ; Lord Chief Baron of 
 
 Court of Exchequer in Scotland ; son of Robert 
 Dundas (No. 85), by his second wife; born 1758; 
 Advocate 1779; Solicitor-General 1784; Lord Advo- 
 cate 1789 ; married, 1787, the Hon. Elizabeth Dundas, 
 eldest daughter of Henry, first Viscount Melville 
 (No. 221) ; died 1819. Painted about 1793. 
 
 Lent by Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston. 
 
 88 DUNDAS, MRS., of Dundas, Linlithgow; Christian 
 
 Stirling, second daughter of Sir William Stirling, 
 Bart., of Ardoch; born 1762; married, 1784, to 
 George Dundas of Dundas ; died 1832. 
 
 Lent by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, Bart., If.P., 
 of Keir and Pollok.
 
 List OF WORKS. 117 
 
 89 DnziLUt, MBS. THOMAS, wife of the third son of 
 
 James Durham, of Largo. 
 
 Lent by Mr*. Dmmdat Durham, 
 
 90 DUKHAX, MBS., of Largo, Fifeshire. 
 
 Lent by Mn. Dmmdat Durham. 
 
 91 EDGAB, ALEXANDER, of Auchingrammont, in Lanark- 
 
 shire, and of Wedderfie in Jamaica ; died 1S20. 
 
 Lad by Liext.-CoL Jam** Hamdatyde Edgar* 6 ^ A 
 
 EDGAB, Ays. (See LADY BAJEBUBJT, No. 248.) 
 
 92 EDGAB, HAJTDASTDB, MJ)., FJLS.E., third son of 
 Alexander Edgar, of Auehingraumiont ; died 1810. 
 
 Lad by Lie*t.-CoL James Handatyde Edgar, GMk 
 BegimemL 
 
 93 EDGAB, JAMKS, of Auchingrammont ; died 1813. 
 Lent by LiemL-CoL James Handatyde Edgar, 
 
 94 EDGAB, JAXBS, infant son of abore ; died 1794. 
 Lad by Liad.-CoL Jamet Hamdatyde Edgar, 
 
 EDGAB, MB. 
 
 Lad by the Baetmr* Family.
 
 118 APPENDIX. 
 
 96 EDMONDSTONE, MURRAY KYNYNMOND, wife of John 
 
 Buchanan, of Arnprior. Painted before 1808. 
 Lent by J. Buchanan Baillie Hamilton, Esq., of 
 Arnprior and Cambusmore. 
 
 97 ELDER, EIGHT HON. THOMAS, of Forneth ; born 1737; 
 
 married, 1765, Enielia, eldest daughter of P. Hus- 
 band, of Logie ; Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1788-90, 
 1792-4, 1796-8; first Lieut.-Col. of Koyal Edinburgh 
 Volunteers 1794; Postmaster-General for Scotland 
 1795, till his death 1799. Painted in 1798 for the 
 University of Edinburgh, the new buildings of which 
 were erected mainly owing to his indefatigable exer- 
 tions. 
 
 Lent by George Bayley, Esq., W.8. 
 
 ELDIN, LORD. (See CLERK, Nos. 58 and 59.) 
 
 98 ELLIOT, CORNELIUS, of Wolfelee. 
 
 Lent by Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.S.L, of Wolfelee. 
 
 99 ELLIOT, MARGARET (Miss Eannie), wife of above ; 
 
 died 1796. 
 
 Lent by Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.S.L, of Wolfelee. 
 
 100 ELLIOT, WILLIAM, eldest son of above ; Major 1st 
 
 Madras Cavalry ; died in India 1805. 
 
 Lent by Sir Walter Ettiot, K.C.S.L, of Wolfelee. 
 
 101 ERSKINE, ANNE, daughter of John Erskine, of Dun, 
 
 and wife of John Wauchope (No. 310) ; died 1811. 
 Lent by Sir John Don Wauchope, Bart., of Ed- 
 monstone.
 
 LIST OF WOBKS. 119 
 
 102 EBSKINE, HON. HENBY, of Amondell, Linlithgow- 
 shire ; distinguished advocate, profound lawyer, and 
 brilliant wit ; second son of Henry David, fifth Earl 
 of Buchan, and brother of David Steuart, the sixth 
 Earl ; born in Edinburgh 1 746 ; admitted Advocate 
 1768 ; Lord Advocate 1783 ; Dean of Faculty 1786 ; 
 Lord Advocate and M.P. for Dumfries Burghs 1806-7 ; 
 retired 1812; married, 1st, 1772, Christian, only child 
 and heiress of George Fullerton, of Broughton Hall, by 
 whom (who died 1804) he had, with other issue, Henry 
 David, afterwards seventh Earl ; Mr. Erskine married, 
 2ndly, 1805, Erskiue, daughter of Alexander Monro, 
 of Glasgow, and widow of John Turnbull, but by her 
 had no issue ; he died in 1817. Painted about 1805. 
 
 Lent by Miss Fullarton. 
 
 103 EBSKINE, HON. MBS., eldest daughter of George 
 Mackay (son of George, third Lord Keay), whose 
 issue were raised to the rank of sons and daughters 
 of a Baron, on the succession of their brother to 
 the peerage ; she married the Eev. John Erskine, 
 D.D., of Carnock. 
 
 Lent by Miss Burnett, of Kern-nay. 
 
 104 EBSKINE, EEV. JOHN, D.D., eldest son of John 
 Erskine, of Carnock, an eminent lawyer, and Mar- 
 garet, daughter of the Hon. James Melville, of 
 Balgairn, Fifeshire; intended for the Bar; became 
 a minister 1743; D.D. 1766; died in 1803, in his 
 82nd year. He is described by Sir Walter Scott in 
 Guy Mannering. 
 
 Lent by Miss Burnett, of Kemnay.
 
 120 APPENDIX. 
 
 105 FEMALE, STUDY OF A. Painted in Rome. 
 
 Lent by James T. Gibson-Craig, Esq. . 
 
 106 FEBGUSON, ADAM, LL.D. ; born 1724; chaplain in 
 
 42nd Regiment ; served in Flanders ; tutor to the 
 Bute family ; Professor of Natural Philosophy in 
 Edinburgh University 1759, of Moral Philosophy 
 1764; wrote History of Roman Republic 1783; died 
 1816. 
 
 Lent by the University of Edinburgh. 
 
 107 SAME. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Ferguson. 
 
 108 FERGUSON, MRS,, of Raith, and her two children, 
 
 Ronald and Beatrice. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Munro Ferguson, of Raith. 
 
 109 FERGUSON, WILLIAM, of Kilrie. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Munro Ferguson, of Raith. 
 
 110 FETTES, SIR WILLIAM, Bart. ; born 1750 ; died 1836 ; 
 
 Uncle of Sir William Fettes Douglas, the distinguished 
 President of the Royal Scottish Academy. 
 Lent by the Trustees of Fettes College. 
 
 Ill FETTES, WILLIAM, only son of above; born 1787; 
 died 1815. 
 
 Lent by the Trustees of Fettes College.
 
 LIST OF WORKS, l2l 
 
 112 FINLAY, MBS. ALEXANDER (Miss Justine Camilla 
 
 Wynne), of Glencorse, near Edinburgh.. 
 
 Lent by Lieut. -Col. J. E. Sharp, Executor of J. Con- 
 nell, Esq. 
 
 113 FORBES, SIR WILLIAM, sixth Baronet, of Pitsligo, 
 
 Aberdeen ; a banker of great eminence in Edinburgh ; 
 and Sir Walter Scott says, in his notes to Harmion, 
 that " he was unequalled, perhaps, in the degree of 
 individual affection entertained for him by his friends, 
 as well as in the general esteem and respect of Scot- 
 land at large." He was also of considerable literary 
 ability, wrote Life of Beattie; he married, in 1770, 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Hay, Bart. (No. 143), 
 of Haystoun, and had issue, of whom the eldest 
 daughter was married to Sir Alexander Wood, 
 K.C.M.G., and died his widow in 1863. Sir Wil- 
 liam died in 1806, and was succeeded by his eldest 
 son William (No. 115). 
 
 Lent by Colin J. Mackenzie, Esq., of Portmore. 
 
 114 SAME. 
 
 Lent by Lord Clinton. 
 
 115 FORBES, SIR WILLIAM, seventh Baronet, of Pitsligo ; 
 
 son of preceding ; married, 1797, Williamina, sole 
 child and heiress (by Lady Jane Leslie, his wife) of 
 Sir John Stuart, Bart., of Fettercairn. Sir William 
 died 1828, succeeded by his second son, John Stuart 
 (No. 117) ; his third son, born 1806, married, 1833, 
 Jemima Rebecca, daughter of Macdonell, of Glengarry 
 (No. 196), and died in 1859, having, with other issue, 
 William, afterwards the ninth Baronet. Picture un- 
 finished. 
 
 Lent by Colin J. Mackenzie, Esq., of Portmore.
 
 122 APPENDIX. 
 
 116 FOEBES, WILLIAM, -with dog; eldest son of the pre- 
 
 ceding ; died unmarried 1826. 
 
 Lent by Lord Clinton, 
 
 117 FORBES, JOHN STUART (afterwards eighth Baronet), 
 
 of Pitsligo, with dog ; second son of Sir William, 
 seventh Baronet ; born 1804 ; married, 1834, Lady 
 Harriet Louisa Anne Kerr, third daughter of William, 
 sixth Marquis of Lothian ; assumed the additional 
 surname and arms of Hepburn, on the death of Alex- 
 ander Hepburn Murray Belshes, as heir of entail to 
 Barony of Invermay, and as heir-at-law to the estate 
 of Balmanno, both in Perthshire ; died 18G6, and was 
 succeeded by his nephew William. 
 Lent by Lord Clinton. 
 
 118 FRASER, ALEXANDER MACKENZIE, of Castle Fraser, 
 
 Eoss-shire ; M.P. for Eoss-shire ; lieut.-general iii 
 the army, and colonel of the 78th Highlanders ; de- 
 rived from his mother the estate of Inverallochy, and 
 that of Castle Fraser from her younger sister Eliza- 
 beth, and assumed in consequence the additional 
 surname of Fraser; married, 1786, Helen, sister of 
 Francis, Lord Seaforth ; died 1809. Picture un- 
 finished. 
 
 Lent by Colin J. Mackenzie, Esq., of Portmore. 
 
 119 FDLLARTON, WILLIAM, of Skelden, Ayrshire ; advo- 
 
 cate. Painted about 1805. 
 Lent by Miss Fullarton. 
 
 120 GALLOWAY, BAILIE WILLIAM ; Treasurer of George 
 
 Watson's Hospital. 
 
 Lent by the Merchant Company of Edinburgh.
 
 LIST Of WORKS. 123 
 
 121, 122, 123, 124. GKNTLKMES, unnamed. (Four Por- 
 traits.) 
 
 Lad by the Baeburn Family. 
 
 125 GDLCHRIST, EBKKKZER, of Newtonaird ; Manager of 
 
 the British Linen Ck>. Bank, Edinburgh. Painted 
 1814. 
 
 Lent by John McCulloch, Esq., Banker. 
 
 126 GIKL, A YOTOG, sitting leaning on a Portfolio. 
 
 Lent by James T. Gibson-Craig, Sty. 
 
 GLEXGARBY. (See MACDOHELL, No. 196.) 
 
 127 GORDON, GEORGE, (fifth and last) DUKE OF, best 
 
 known as Marquis of Huntlj ; born 1770 ; with 
 Duke of York in Flanders; raised &>nd Regiment, 
 or Gordon Highlanders ; Colonel 1796 ; sometime 
 Governor of Edinburgh Castle; served in Ireland 
 and Holland; General 1819; G.C.B. 1820; married, 
 1813, Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Brodie, of 
 Arnhall, N.B., bat by her (who died 1864) had no 
 issue; succeeded to Dukedom 1827; died in 1836, 
 when the Dukedom became extinct. 
 
 Lent by ike Bight Hon. ike Lord Justice-General. 
 
 128 GORDOH, JOHH, of Aikenhead. 
 
 Le*i by John Gordon, Esq^ of Aikenhead. 
 
 129 GoD03r, MBS., of Aikenhead. 
 
 Lent by John Gordon, Esq., of Aikenhead.
 
 124 APPENDIX. 
 
 130 Gow, NEIL ; a celebrated violin-player and composer 
 
 of Scottish airs ; born at Inverness 1727; died 1807. 
 Eaeburn, in addition to one painted for himself, 
 made four portraits of Neil Gow, one for the County 
 Hall, Perth, the others for the Duke of Athol, Lord 
 Grey, and William Maule, afterwards Lord Panmure. 
 
 Lent by Robert Salmond, Esq. 
 
 131 GRAEME, JOHN, of Eskbank. 
 
 Lent by Miss Graeme. 
 
 132 GRAEME, MRS. 
 
 Lent by Miss Graeme. 
 
 133 GRANT, SIR JOHN PETER, M.P., of Kothieniurchus, 
 
 Inverness- shire ; held a high judicial position in 
 India for many years ; died 1848. (Miniature.) 
 Lent by James T. Gibson-Craig, Esq. 
 
 134. GRAY, JOHN, of Newholm; Town Clerk of Edin- 
 burgh. 
 
 Lent by Alexander Cunningham, Esq., W.8. 
 
 135 GREGORY, JAMES, M.D. ; born at Aberdeen 1753 ; son 
 of Professor John Gregory, by Elizabeth, his wife, 
 daughter of the thirteenth Lord Forbes. (Dr. John 
 Gregory was Professor of the Theory of Medicine in 
 Edinburgh University, and author of A Father's 
 Legacy to his Daughter, and other works, and was 
 descended from the Scottish family of Gregory, cele- 
 brated for two centuries in science and literature, of 
 which was James Gregory, the great mathematician.)
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 125 
 
 Dr. James Gregory was Professor of the Theory of 
 Physic, Edinburgh, 1776 ; succeeded Dr. Cullen as 
 Professor of Practice of Physic 1790; President of 
 Koyal College of Physicians 1798; wrote Conspectus 
 Medicines Theoreticce, Philosophical and Literary Essays, 
 &c. ; married a daughter of Macleod, of Geanies (No. 
 209) ; died 1821. Painted about 1796. 
 Lent by Miss Gregory. 
 
 136 GREGORY, MRS. ; wife of preceding, and daughter of 
 
 Macleod, of Geanies (No. 209) ; born 1770 ; died 1847. 
 Painted about 1796. 
 Lent by Miss Gregory. 
 
 137 HALKETT, MRS. CRAIGIE ; daughter of Sir John Mar- 
 
 joribanks, Bart., of Lees, Berwickshire ; wife of 
 Charles Craigie Halkett, who assumed the surname 
 of Inglis on succeeding, in 1849, to Sir John Inglis, 
 Bart., of Cramond, Midlothian. 
 Lent by Miss Sands. 
 
 138 HAMILTON, LADY ; Margaret, sixth daughter of James 
 
 Stirling, of Keir; born 1720; married, in 1750, to Sir 
 Hugh Hamilton, Bart., of Eosehall ; died 1802. 
 Lent by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, Bart., M.P., 
 of Keir and Pollol: 
 
 139 HAMILTON, JAMES, Senr., M.D. ; born 1749, at Cra- 
 
 mond ; Physician to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, 
 &c. ; wrote on medical subjects ; died 1835. The last 
 denizen of Edinburgh who adhered to the costume of 
 the 18th century. 
 
 Lent by Lord Moncrei/, of Tullibole (Lord Justice 
 Clerk}.
 
 326 APPENDIX. 
 
 140 HAMILTON, JAMES, Junr., M.D. ; Professor in Edin- 
 
 burgh University ; a most distinguished obstetric 
 physician. (Miniature.) 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Leatham, his daughter. 
 
 141 HAY, CHARLES (Lord Newton) ; born about 1740 ; son 
 
 of James Hay, of Cocklaw, W.S. ; passed Advocate 
 1768 ; succeeded David Smythe, of Methven, on the 
 Bench 1806; styled " The Mighty " from his great 
 qualities of body and mind ; died 1811. 
 Lent by Mrs. Munro Ferguson, of Rait Ji. 
 
 142 SAME. 
 
 Lent by the Board of Manufactures. 
 
 143 HAY, SIR JAMES, of Haystoun, fourth Baronet. The 
 
 baronetcy having been dormant since 1683, he pre- 
 ferred his claim to it in 1762, which was allowed by a 
 jury assembled at Peebles in the same year ; he mar- 
 ried. Dorriel, youngest daughter and co-heiress of 
 Daniel Campbell, of Greenyards ; died 1810, suc- 
 ceeded by his son John (No. 144). Painted about 
 1806. 
 Lent by Sir Robert Hay, Bart., of Haystoun. 
 
 144 HAY, SIR JOHN, of Haystoun, fifth Baronet ; born 
 
 1755 ; married, 1785, Mary Elizabeth, youngest 
 daughter of James, sixteenth Lord Forbes, by whom 
 (who died in 1803) he had, with other issue, John, 
 sixth Baronet ; died 1830. Painted about 1818. 
 Lent by Sir Robert Hay, Bart., of Haystoun.
 
 LEST OF WORKS. 
 
 HAT, Jeara; Master of TriMty Howe, tinted in 
 
 :-v\ \~- 
 
 148 Ban* Da. JOHX (with his aoa); Professor of Ctasi5<s 
 
 HH1, of St. Andievs. Bnrted about iaL 
 J&. 
 
 HOMK, RET. Jim; ban near Amenm, IT**-, elun- 
 
 at Inttfeof lUkiik 1746; wnplar ja Eut LoMui 
 1746; wrote tragedy off JlMgfarii, pofonMsd im Efe- 
 ; it was popular, loot saw *ew# to fce 
 
 sEgmai M$ lirimg:; vrotte HM*ry <tftius 
 1745; OipSam of IMk^ >ff 
 1778; diediaOBL 
 
 150 HOXTMAJ, SB WEKKIAX, But. (Loid Anaailale); 
 Senator 0f tke College of JiBfiee; Muned, 1777, 
 of the Right Iboo. Robert 
 
 1804; died 1835; meaeded bj 
 Riebaid. Boated afeoot 1800L 
 
 LemilyMn.Cm&iiimtDmlli*. 
 
 151 HOMTKAH, IJJ>T, wife of pieeedng; daoghter of 
 Right HAL Robert M^p^^., d Braxftfid (No. 
 212). Prated about 1800.
 
 128 APPENDIX. 
 
 152 HOPE, GENERAL HON. CHARLES, son of John, second 
 
 Earl of Hopetoun, by his third wife, Lady Elizabeth 
 Leslie, second daughter of Alexander^ fifth Earl of 
 Leven and Melville ; the General married Louisa 
 Anne, eldest daughter of George Finch Hatton ; died 
 1828. 
 Lent by the Earl of Hopetoun. 
 
 153 HOPE, LORD PRESIDENT CHARLES, of Granton ; born 
 
 1763 ; grandson of first Earl of Hopetoun ; passed 
 Advocate 1784 ; married, 1793, Charlotte, daughter 
 of John, second Earl of Hopetoun ; Lord Advocate 
 1801 ; M.P. for Dumfries Burghs, and succeeded 
 Dundas for Edinburgh ; Lord President 1811 ; held 
 office for thirty years ; Lord Justice General, by Act 
 of Parliament, on death of Duke of Montrose 1836 ; 
 died 1851. 
 
 Lent by the Earl of Hopetoun. 
 
 154 HOPE, EIGHT HON. CHARLES, as Lord Advocate. 
 
 Painted about 1803. 
 Lent by the Misses Hope. 
 
 155 HOPE, LADY CHARLOTTE, daughter of John, second 
 
 Earl of Hopetoun, and wife of above. Painted about 
 1811. 
 Lent by the Misses Hope. 
 
 156 HOPE, THOMAS CHARLES, M.D., Professor of Chemistry 
 in the University of Edinburgh ; celebrated lecturer, 
 and almost unrivalled experimentalist ; died 1843, 
 Lent by John Hope, Esq.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 129 
 
 157 HOPETOFH , GENERAL JOHN, (fourth) EARL OF ; re- 
 
 markable for his stature ; born 1765 ; succeeded to 
 the Earldom on the death of his half brother, James, 
 in 1817; General 1819; was G.C.B. ; for gallant 
 achievements in the Peninsular War had been elevated 
 to peerage of United Kingdom, 1814, as Baron Niddry, 
 of Niddry Castle, Linlithgowshire ; married, first, in 
 1798, Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. Charles Hope 
 Vere, of Craigiehall, by whom he had no issue ; 2ndly, 
 in 1803, Louisa Dorothea, daughter of Sir John Wed- 
 derburn, Bart.; died 1823; succeeded by his eldest 
 son John. Painted 1817. 
 
 Lent by the Commissioners of Supply of the County 
 of LmMkgow. 
 
 158 HORXER, FRASCIS ; born 1778 ; educated at Edinburgh 
 
 High School and University ; passed Advocate 1800 ; 
 M.P. for St. Ives 1806, and afterwards for St. Mawes, 
 in the Whig interest; wrote for Edinburgh Review: ; 
 called to the English Bar; died 1817. Well known 
 as a statesman, barrister, and political writer. 
 Lent by ike Speculative Society. 
 
 159 SAKS. 
 
 Lent by the Raeburn Family. 
 
 160 HousTouir, GOVERNOR ALEXANDER, of Clerkington, 
 
 Haddingtonshire, 
 
 Lent by Robert Alexander Houstoun, Esq. 
 
 161 Housroira, M&s., of Clerkington. 
 
 Lent by Robert Alexander Houston*, Esq.
 
 130 APPENDIX. 
 
 162 HUME, DAVID; nephew of the historian; born 1756 
 
 passed Advocate 1779 ; Sheriff of Berwickshire 1784 
 Professor of Scots Law in Edinburgh University 1786 
 Sir W. Scott attended his class ; Sheriff of Linlithgow 
 shire 1793 ; Principal Clerk of Session 1811 ; Baron of 
 Exchequer 1822 ; wrote Commentaries on Criminal Law 
 of Scotland 1797 ; died 1838. 
 
 Lent by the Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh. 
 
 163 SAME. Painted 1822. 
 
 Lent by the Society of Writers to H.M. Signet. 
 
 164 HUNT, WILLIAM, of Pittencrieff, Fifeshire. Painted 
 
 1810. 
 
 Lent by James A. Hunt, Esq., of Pittencrieff. 
 
 165 HUNTER, REV. ANDREW, D.D., of Barjarg; Professor 
 
 of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, and Minister of 
 Tron Church there ; died 1806, aged 66. 
 
 Lent by W, F. Hunter Arundell, Esq., of Barjarg. 
 
 HUNTLY, MARQUIS OF. (See DUKE OF GORDON, No. 
 127.) 
 
 166 HUTTON, JAMES, M.D., Geologist; born 1726; studied 
 
 Medicine in Paris and Ley den; along with James 
 Davis, made experiments in agricultural chemistry ; 
 settled in Edinburgh 1768 ; published Investigations 
 of the Principles of Knoioledge 1794, Theory of Hie 
 Earth 1795; died 1797. 
 Lent by Sir George Warrenaer, Bart.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 131 
 
 167 HYTDVOKD, COTOETESS OF. Copied bj Baebnrn from 
 
 the original painted by Allan Bamsaj. 
 Lad by Robert Dmmda*, E^., o/Anutem. 
 
 168 Lrajs, Ai>im*t. CHAKLBS; brother of Sir Patrick 
 
 IngHs. 
 
 Lemt by Sir John Don Wamcmope, Bart^ of Edm**- 
 
 169 IXGUS, SEK PATMCT, of Sonnjside ; son of Sir 
 John Ingfts, of Cramond, and Anne Cockbarn, of 
 
 Lemt by SirJolm Dam ITamflr,^ BH., f EJm*- 
 domt. 
 
 170 JACKBOX, JAKES ; Commissioner of Excise. 
 
 Lemt by Alaamdtr Jadaom, *?., X.D., P.E.C.PJZ. 
 
 " JAMB." (See JAMBS BAUOUB, No. 1L) 
 
 171 JBFFKXT, FEAXCIS, LOKB; born in Edinburgh 1773; 
 
 passed Advocate 1794; projected, with friends, the 
 Edmbmrgk Bale*, of which he was editor 1803-29; 
 Bean of faenltr 1829; Lord Adrocaie 1830; M-P. 
 for Edinburgh 1832; raised to Bench 1834; died 
 1850. 
 
 Lemt by the Rmebmrm Family. 
 
 172 Joranov, JAMKS, of Straiten. Painted about 1800. 
 
 Lemt by Sir WOIlam BaOKe, Bart^ ^PoOeemmet. 
 
 9 *
 
 132 APPENDIX. 
 
 173 JOHNSTON, MRS., wife of James Johnston, of Straiton ; 
 
 second daughter of William Baillie, Lord Polkemmet. 
 Painted about 1800. 
 
 Lent by Sir William Baillie, Bart., of Polkemmet. 
 
 JOHNSTON, LUCY. (See MBS. OSWALD, No. 238.) 
 
 174 JOHNSTONE, COMMODORE GEORGE ; born about 1720 ; 
 
 third son of Sir James Johnstone, third Baronet, of 
 Westerhall ; advised Rodney of the Spanish War, and 
 so led to the capture of Havanuah 1761 ; Governor of 
 West Florida 1763; M.P. for Applebv and Cocker- 
 mouth ; opposed Clive and the East India Company ; 
 married Charlotte Dee ; their son John succeeded to 
 the Baronetcy in 1805 on the death of his uncle, Sir 
 William, fifth Baronet ; died 1787. 
 Lent by Mrs. Ferguson. 
 
 175 SAME. 
 
 Lent by the Raeburn Family. 
 
 176 JOHNSTONE, MRS. ("Contemplation"). 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Ferguson. 
 
 177 JOHNSTONE, REV. DAVID, D.D. He was the original 
 
 Secretary, if not the Founder, of the Asylum for the 
 Industrious Blind at Edinburgh in September 1793, 
 and continued to be its great supporter ; died in July 
 1824, in bis 91st year. Painted 1808 or 1809. 
 
 Lent by D. J. Macbrair, Esq. (Duplicate in the 
 Blind Asylum.) 
 
 178 KEITH, ALEXANDER, of Ravelston, Midlothian. 
 
 Lent by John Murray Gartshore, Esq., of Ravelston.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 133 
 
 179 KENNEDY, THOMAS, of Dunure. Painted about 1812. 
 
 Lent by the Bight Hon. T. F. Kennedy, of Dunure. 
 
 180 KENNEDY, RIGHT HON. THOMAS F., of Dunure. 
 
 Painted about 1822. 
 
 Lent by the Eight Hon. T. F. Kennedy, of Dunure. 
 
 181 KENNEDY, MRS., of Dunure. Painted about 1811. 
 
 Lent by the Bight Hon. T. F. Kennedy, of Dunure. 
 
 182 LADY, full length. 
 
 Lent by the Baeburn Family. 
 
 183 LADY, OLD, with large cap. 
 
 Lent by James T. Gibson-Craig, Esq. 
 
 184 LAW, WILLIAM, of Elvingstone ; Advocate; Sheriff 
 
 of Haddington shire ; died at Edinburgh 15th Dec. 
 1806, aged 92. 
 
 Lent by James T. Gibson-Craig, Esq. 
 
 LESLIE, JACOBINA. (See MBS. VERB, No. 304.) 
 
 185 LIDDELL, MRS., mother-in-law of Judge Cay (No. 51). 
 
 Painted before 1810. 
 Lent by John Cay, Esq. 
 
 186 LINDESAY, COLONEL JOHN SCOTT, when a boy. 
 
 Lent by Miss Sands. 
 
 187 LINDSAY, ALEXANDER, of Pinkieburn. Painted about 
 
 1807. 
 
 Lent by the Rev. W. Lindsay- Alexander, D.D.
 
 134 APPENDIX. 
 
 188 LINDSAY, REV. JAMES, of Pinkieburn ; minister of 
 Kirkliston, Linlithgowshire ; died 1796, aged 85. 
 Lent by the Rev. W. Lindsay-Alexander, D.D. 
 
 189 LIVINGSTONE, REV. ARCHIBALD ; minister of Cain- 
 Ijusnethan. 
 
 Lent by Dr. James Livingstone. 
 
 190 LOTHIAN, BAILIE WALTER; Treasurer of George 
 
 Watson's Hospital. 
 
 Lent by the Merchant Company of Edinburgh. 
 
 191 LOTHIAN, WILLIAM (sixth) MARQUIS OF, K.T. ; Lord- 
 
 Lieutenant of Mid-Lothian and Roxburghshire, and 
 Colonel of the Edinburgh Militia ; was enrolled 
 amongst the peers of the United Kingdom in 1821 
 as Baron Kerr, of Kerraheugh, Roxburghshire. He 
 married, 1st, 1793, Henrietta, daughter of John, 
 second Earl of Buckinghamshire, and by her (who 
 died in 1805) had, with other issue, John, after- 
 wards seventh Marquis; 2ndly, 180(3, Harriet, 
 daughter of Henry, third Duke of Buccleuch, and 
 by her (who died 1833) had issue ; he died 1824. 
 Lent by the Marquis of Lothian. 
 
 LOUDON, FLORA, COUNTESS OF, in her own right 
 (with Patrick, Earl of Dumfries, No. 82); only 
 child of James, fifth Earl of Loudou ; married, in 
 1804, to Francis, first Marquis of Hastings, at one 
 time Governor-General of India, Constable of the 
 Tower of London ; she died 1840. 
 Lent by the Marquis of Bute.
 
 LIST OF WOEKS. 135 
 
 192 Low, ADAM, of Fordel ; Provost of Dunfermline 
 
 1787-89. 
 
 Lent by the Magistrates and Town Council of Dun- 
 fermline. 
 
 193 LTON, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL. 
 
 Lent by David Smith, Esq. 
 
 194 McCoEMicK, EDWARD, Sheriff of Ayrshire. 
 
 Lent by the Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh. 
 
 195 MAcDoKAio), WILLIAM, of St. Martin's, Perthshire ; 
 
 born 1732 ; Principal Secretary of the Highland and 
 Agricultural Society of Scotland 1784-1804; Trea- 
 surer 1804 till death in 1814. Painted 1803. 
 
 Lent by the Highland and Agricultural Society of 
 Scotland. 
 
 196 MACDOXELL, ALISTAIK, of Glengarry ; the last chief 
 
 of the clan. The House of Glengarry was famous 
 for adherence to the Stuarts. The then chief was in 
 the Rebellion of 1715. After the battles of Preston, 
 Falkirk, and Culloden, a subsequent chief escaped to 
 France with Prince Charlie; this last Macdonell 
 represented Fergus Maclvor in Scott's Waverley. 
 Alistair always wore the national dress. In 1822 he 
 was one of the party of Scottish nobles and gentle- 
 men who banqueted with George IV. at Holyrood. 
 As it had been the custom of the chiefs of the house 
 from time immemorial to have loaded pistols lying 
 beside them at their meals, Glengarry placed his on 
 the table by his plate. This act was observed by His 
 Majesty, and, remembering the Jacobite leanings of 
 that house, he started up in alarm to fly from the
 
 136 APPENDIX. 
 
 hall, when the incident was explained and the King 
 assured that Glengarry meant no treason. One of 
 his daughters was married to a son "of Sir William 
 Forbes, of Pitsligo (No. 115). He perished in 1828, 
 while endeavouring to escape from a steamer which 
 had gone ashore on the coast of Scotland ; in his 
 impetuosity he jumped overboard and hit his head 
 against a rock. He was the last Highland chief 
 who retained the manners and customs of his ances- 
 tors. At his death, his son, with his family, emi- 
 grated to Australia. Painted about 1800. 
 Lent by Mrs. H. F. McLean. 
 
 197 MACDONELL, SOMERLED. 
 
 Lent by Miss Gregory. 
 
 198 MACKENZIE, LiEUT.-CoL. ALEXANDER, the younger, 
 
 of Portmore. Painted about 1800. 
 
 Lent by Colin J. Mackenzie, Esq., of Portmore. 
 
 199 MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER, of Portmore. Painted before 
 
 Eaeburn went to Rome. 
 
 Lent by Colin J. Mackenzie, Esq., of Portmore. 
 
 200 MACKENZIE, MRS., of Portmore. 
 
 Lent by Colin J. Mackenzie, Esq., of Portmore. 
 
 201 MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER, the younger, of Portmore. 
 
 Painted 1822. 
 
 Lent by Colin J. Mackenzie, Esq., of Portmore. 
 
 202 MACKENZIE, COLIN, D.K.S., of Portmore ; died 1830. 
 
 Lent by Colin J. Mackenzie, Esq., of Portmore.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 137 
 
 203 MACKENZIE, MRS., of Portmore. 
 
 Lent by Colin J. Mackenzie, Esq., of Portmore. 
 
 204 MACKENZIE, HON. FRANCIS JOHN, of Seaforth, sup- 
 
 posed to be a brother of the last Lord Seaforth. 
 Lent by the Misses Mackenzie. 
 
 205 MACKENZIE, SIB GEORGE STEUART, seventh Baronet, 
 
 F.R.S,, of Coul, Ross-shire, Vice-President of the 
 Royal Society of Edinburgh ; born 1780 ; married, 1st, 
 1802, Mary, daughter of Donald MacLeod, of Geanies, 
 Sheriff of" Ross-shire (No. 209), by whom (who died 
 1835) he had, with other issue, Alexander, afterwards 
 eighth Baronet ; Sir George married, 2ndly, 1836, 
 Katherine, daughter of Sir Henry Jardine, of Har- 
 wood, and widow of Captain John Street, R.A. ; he 
 died 1848. Painted about 1811. 
 
 Lent by the Rev. John Mackenzie. 
 
 206 MACKENZIE, LADY, of Coul (mother of the above) ; 
 
 daughter of Robert Ramsay, of Camno ; born 1754; 
 married, 1778, to Alexander Mackenzie, afterwards 
 sixth Baronet. She died 1829. Painted about 1794. 
 Lent by the Rev. John Mackenzie. 
 
 207 MACKENZIE, HENRY; bora 1745; educated for the 
 
 law ; Comptroller of Taxes 1804 ; published Man of 
 Feeling 1771, Man of the World 1773, Julia de Rou- 
 btgne 1777 ; prominent member of the Mirror Club ; 
 started The Mirror 1779, The Lounger 1785; died 
 1831. 
 
 Lent by Robert Horn, Eq., Advocate.
 
 138 APPENDIX. 
 
 208 SAME. 
 
 Lent by the Raeburn Family. 
 
 209 MACLEOD, DONALD, of Geanies ; father of General 
 
 Macleod, an eminent Engineer officer in India (whose 
 son was the greatly-lamented Sir Donald Macleod, 
 K.C.S.I., C.B., Lieutenant Governor of the Punjaub), 
 of Lady Mackenzie, of Coul (see No. 205), and of Mrs. 
 Gregory (No. 136); he was born 1755; Sheriff of 
 Ross-shire ; died 1834. Painted about 1800. 
 Lent by the Rev. John Mackenzie. 
 
 210 MACNAB, THE ; head of the clan. 
 
 Lent by Lady Elizabeth Pringle. 
 
 211 MACONOCHIE, HON. ALLAN, of Meadowbauk, tirst 
 
 Lord Meadowbank ; Judge of the Court of Session, 
 Justiciary, and Jury ; married Elizabeth Preston (see 
 No. 244) ; died 1816. Painted 1814. 
 
 Lent by Allan A. Maconochie Welwood, Esq., of 
 Meadowbank. 
 
 MACONOCHIE, MRS. (See ELIZABETH WELWOOD, No. 
 315.) 
 
 212 MACQUEEN, EGBERT (Lord Braxfield) ; born 1721; 
 
 admitted to the Bar 1744; raised to the Bench by 
 the title of Lord Braxfield 1776 ; Lord Justice Clerk 
 1788 ; married a daughter of Robert Ord, Chief 
 Baron of Exchequer in Scotland; died 1799. 
 Lent by Mrs. Macqueen, of Braxfield. 
 
 MACQUEEN, MRS. (See ORD, No. 237.)
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 139 
 
 213 MADOJTXA, HJKAD or A (Miniature). Signed " H. B. 
 
 1777." 
 Lad by James T. GibtoH-Crnig, Esq. 
 
 214 MATTLAXD, BEAK- ADMIRAL JOHX ; eldest son of Col. 
 
 the Hon. Eichard Maitland, and grandson of the sixth 
 Earl of Landerdale ; Bear- Admiral of the Bed ; mar- 
 ried, lot, Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald Ogilvie ; 
 2ndly, Dora, daughter of Colthurst Batemaa : died, 
 
 Lent by UK SaebuTu Family. 
 
 215 MAITLAXD, LADT ; wife of Admiral Sir Frederick 
 
 Maitland, to whom the Emperor Napoleon L sur- 
 rendered on board H.M.S. Betttntfhon in 1815. 
 Fainted about 1817. 
 
 Lc*t by Bair-Admiral W. H. MaiUamd-DoayaO, of 
 Sc&bcraig. 
 
 216 MALCOLM, SIK JAMBS, K.C^. ; a distinguished officer 
 
 of Marines. 
 
 Le*t by W. E. Malcolm, ?., of Bxrifoot. 
 
 217 MAXWKLL, Miss HAJUUET, of Pollok; born 1789; 
 
 died 1841 ; daughter of Sir John Maxwell, seventh 
 Baronet, 
 
 Lent by Sir William Stirling-MaxKtll, Barf., JfJ>. 
 of Keir amd PoUok. 
 
 218 MAIWKLL, SIB WILLIAM, sixth Baronet, of Calder- 
 
 wood, Lanarkshire ; born 1748 ; married, 1807, Hannah 
 Leonora, daughter of Bobert Padej, of Mount Annan ; 
 died without issue in 1829 ; succeeded by his cousin. 
 {See next.) 
 
 Lent by Sir William Jftuvefl, Bart^ of Caldcrvood.
 
 140 APPENDIX. 
 
 219 MAXWELL, GENERAL SIR WILLIAM, of Calderwood, 
 seventh Baronet; born 1754 ; married, 1792, Isabella, 
 daughter and heiress of Henry Wilson, *of Newbottle, 
 Durham ; died 1837 ; succeeded by his eldest sou, 
 William. 
 
 Lent by Sir William Maxwell, Bart., of Calderwood. 
 
 MEADOWBANK, (first) LORD. (See HON. ALLAN MACO- 
 NOCHIE, No. 211.) 
 
 220 MEADOWBANK, (second) LORD, Hon. Alexander Maco- 
 nochie Welwood, of Meadowbank and Garvoch ; Sena- 
 tor of the College of Justice, at the age of 39, when 
 Lord Advocate ; died 1861. Painted 1816. 
 
 Lent by Allan A. Maconochie Welwood, Esq., oj 
 Meadowbank. 
 
 MEADOWBANK, (second) LADY. (See HON. ANNE 
 BLAIR, No. 19.) 
 
 221 MELVILLE, HENRY DUNDAS, (first) VISCOUNT ; states- 
 man ; son of first Lord President Dundas, of Arnistou, 
 by his second wife ; born at Edinburgh 1742 ; passed 
 Advocate 1763 ; Solicitor General for Scotland 1773; 
 Lord Advocate 1775 ; M.P. for county, and afterwards 
 for city, of Edinburgh ; Treasurer of the Navy 1782-3 
 and 1784-1800; Governor of the Bank of Scotland 
 1790-1811 ; Commissioner and President of the 
 Board of Control 1784-1 800; -Home Secretary 1791 ; 
 Secretary for War and Colonies 1794 ; created Baron 
 Duneira and Viscount Melville 1802 ; First Lord of 
 the Admiralty 1804 ; married, 1st, Elizabeth, daughter
 
 141 
 
 of Dtvid Rennie, of Merrille Oastfe, and by her, with 
 other issue, had Robert, his successor; 2ndlj, 1793, 
 Jane, daughter of John, second Earl of Hopetoun, by 
 whom he had no ksne; died at Edinburgh 1811. 
 Lemt fty the B*mk of SeaOmd. 
 
 MILLER. LADT. of Gknke, Kirkeudbright ; died 
 
 MOVCKKIFF, RKT. 8n HKSTKT WKU.WOOD, L.D.. 
 c^bth Baronet ; a TT eminent dirine ; son of the 
 fier. Sir W3faam Moocreiff and his wife Catherine, 
 danghter of Robert WeOvood, of Ganoch; ban 
 1730; ednealed for theChnieh at Glasgov and Bdin- 
 burgh ; minister of Bbckford 1771, of St. Cothbert's, 
 Edinburgh 1775; married, 1778, Susan Robertson, 
 eldest daughter of James Robertson Rardaj, of 
 Kea TiL Fif eshi re ; prtwn imn; in Choreh Courts, Mo- 
 derator of General Assembly 1785; collector of 
 Widows* Fond for 43 rears"; published Sermons, 
 work on the Constitution of the Church of Scot- 
 land, *nd Life cf Dr. Entimt ; died 1827; 
 bj his second son, Timmr. 
 
 Ltmt &f Sir Dmmifi *?*#>. PJLJSJL 
 
 ROBKKT Scorr, of WeUwood and 
 Lemt kg tke Boyal Scott* Academy. 
 
 JAMBB (Miss Margaret Thomson, of 
 
 Camphfll). Fainted about 18aQ. 
 Lad by Mn. Walter C. SmiA.
 
 142 APPENDIX. 
 
 226 MONTGOMERY, SIR JAMES, Bart. ; second son of Wil- 
 liam Montgomery, of Magbie Hill, and brother of 
 Sir William Montgomery, Bart, (whfch Baronetcy 
 became extinct at the decease of Sir George Mont- 
 gomery, son of Sir William, in 1831) ; successively 
 Solicitor-General and Lord Advocate; Lord Chief 
 Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland 1775; M.P. for 
 Peebles ; created Baronet 1801 ; married Margaret, 
 only daughter and heiress of Robert Scott, of Kil- 
 learn ; died 1803 ; succeeded bv his second son, 
 James. (See next.) 
 
 Lent by Sir G. Praham Monti/omen/, Ttnrt., 37". P., of 
 Stanhope. 
 
 17 MONTGOMERY, SIR JAMES, second Baronet, of Stan- 
 hope, Peebleshire ; second son of above ; brought \\\> 
 to the Bar; Lord Advocate 1804; resigned 1806; 
 married, 1st, 1806, Elizabeth, daughter of Duubar, 
 fourth Earl of Selkirk, bv whom, with other issue, he 
 had Helen Anne, married in 1830 to William Forbes 
 Mackenzie, M.P., of Portmore, who died in 1862 ; and, 
 2ndly, 1816, Helen, daughter of Thomas Graham, of 
 Kinross, by whom, with other issue, he had Graham, 
 who became third Baronet in 1839, on his father's 
 death. 
 
 Lent by Colin J. Mackenzie, Esq., of Portmore. 
 
 228 MONTGOMERY, LADY ; wife of Sir James Montgomery 
 (No. 227) ; daughter of Dunbar, fourth Earl of Sel- 
 kirk ; died 1814. Painted about 1810. 
 
 Lent by Sir G. Graham Montgomery, Bart., M.P., of 
 Stanhope.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 143 
 
 229 MOXTGOM EBT, BOBEKT. Painted about 1800. 
 Lent by the Very Rev. Than Montgomery. 
 
 230 MntBAT. SIE JOHX ARCHIBALD (Lord Murray) ; ad- 
 mitted to the Bar, in the first rear of the century. 
 with Henry Brongham, Francis Horner, and Henry 
 Cockburn; in 1802, on the suggestion of Sydney 
 Smith, they set op the Edinbmrgh Review ; first' M.P. 
 for Leith after the Beform Act ; Lord Advocate 1-334 ; 
 Knighted, and afterwards raised to the Bench, 1839 : 
 died 1859. 
 
 Lent by the Bight Hon. T. F. Kennedy, or DUHMIV. 
 
 231 MCBKAT, SIB WILI.IAM, fifth Baronet, of Ochtertyre, 
 Peebleshire; married, 1770, Augusta, daughter of 
 George, third Earl of Cromartie; died 1300; sue- 
 ceeded bj his eldest son, Patrick. 
 
 Lent by Sir Patrick KeitJt Murray, Bart., of Odder- 
 tyre. 
 
 NAIRSK, CAPTAIK ALKXAHBEB, H.EiC.8. Painted 
 about 1813. 
 
 Lent by the Rev. Spencer Natrne, Rector of Hnntdon. 
 
 233 X KWBTGOntG, Jj 
 
 Lent by Adam RoHand, Etq^ of Go*. 
 
 234 XEWBiconrc, MBS. 
 
 Lent by Adam RoIJand, Ktq^ of Ga*t.
 
 144 APPENDIX. 
 
 NEWTON, LORD. (See CHARLES HAY, No. 141.) 
 
 235 NICOLL, REV. DR. FRANCIS ; Principal of the United 
 
 College of St. Andrews ; died 1835. 
 
 Lent by the Trustees of the Ministers' Widows' Fund. 
 
 236 OFFICER, WITH DOG, AN. 
 
 Lent by the Raeburn Family. 
 
 237 ORD, or MACQUEEN, MRS. ELIZABETH; wife of Justice 
 
 Clerk Macqueen, Lord Braxfield (No. 212), and 
 daughter of Robert Ord, Chief Baron of Exchequer 
 in Scotland. Painted about 1790. 
 
 Lent by John Ord Mackenzie, Esq., of Dolphinton, 
 W.8. 
 
 238 OSWALD, MRS., of Auchencruive, Ayrshire ; daughter 
 
 of Wynne Johnston, of Hilton ; married, 1793, to 
 Richard Alexander Oswald, of Auchencruive, Ayr- 
 shire ; died 1798. 
 
 Lent by James T. Gibson-Craig, Esq. 
 
 239 PITCAIRN, JOHN, of Pitcairn. Painted about 1819. 
 
 Lent by W. F. Pitcairn, Esq. 
 
 240 PITCAIRN ; Provost of Dundee. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Pitcairn. 
 
 241 PITCAIRN, MRS. ; wife of above. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Pitcairn.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 145 
 
 242 PIJLYFAIR, JOHS, M.A. ; born 1748 ; at 18 contested 
 the Mathematical Chair at Marischal College, Aber- 
 deen ; Professor of Mathematics, and afterwards of 
 Natural Philosophy, in Edinburgh TJniYersitv 1785 
 1805 ; wrote Elements of Geometry, Outlines of Natural 
 Philosophy, 1812-16 ; d'ied 1819. 
 Lent by the University of Edinburgh. 
 
 248 SAME. 
 
 Lent by the Baeburn Family. 
 
 244 PRESTOX, MAKY ; daughter of Sir George Preston, of 
 Valley field, Perthshire, fourth Baronet ; married, 
 1774, to Robert Wei wood, of Garvocb, and had, 
 with other issue, Elizabeth, married to the Hon. 
 Allan Maconochie (No. 211). Painted, at the age of 
 92, in 1808. 
 
 Lent by Allan A. Maconochie Weliwxi, Esq.. of 
 Meadoicbanl. 
 
 245, 246, 247. RAKBUBN, SIB HEHRY, R.A.; born at 
 Edinburgh 1756 ; died 1823. One oil painting and 
 two medallions. 
 
 Lent by the Saeburn Family. 
 
 248 EAEBUKK, AHN, LA.DY; daughter of Peter Edgar, of 
 
 Bridgelands ; widow of Count Leslie ; wife of Sir 
 Henry Baeburn ; born 1744 ; died about 1833. 
 
 Lent by the Baeburn Family. 
 
 249 RAEBUBK, HEXBY, of St. Bernard's, on a grey pony, 
 
 at the age of about 14 ; son of Sir Henry Baeburn. 
 
 Lent by the Baeburn Family. 
 
 10
 
 146 APPENDIX. 
 
 250 RANNIE, JAMES ; wine merchant, Leith. 
 
 Lent by Lord Torphichen. 
 
 RANNIE, Miss MARGARET. (See MRS. M ELLIOT, of 
 Wolfelee, No. 99.) 
 
 251 EEID, REV. THOMAS, D.D. ; born at Strachan 1710 ; 
 
 studied at Aberdeen for the Church ; Professor of 
 Moral Philosophy, Aberdeen ; wrote Enquiry into the 
 Human Mind 1764 ; succeeded Adam Smith as Pro- 
 fessor of Logic, Glasgow, 1764 ; wrote Essay on Intel- 
 lectual Powers 1785, On the Active Powers 1788 ; died 
 1796. 
 
 Lent by Miss Gregory, Canaan Lodge. 
 
 252 RENNIE, JOHN, F.R.S. ; the eminent civil engineer; 
 born 1761 in East Lothian ; about 1780 established 
 himself in London as a mechanist ; built the Waterloo 
 Bridge over the Thames ; planned the London Docks 
 and the East and West India Docks at Blackwall ; 
 designed the Breakwater at Plymouth Sound ; he 
 also planned the pier at Holyhead, and several im- 
 portant dockyards and canals ; died 1821, and was 
 buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. His son, Sir John, 
 constructed London Bridge, from the design left by 
 his father. 
 
 Lent by the Raebum Family. 
 
 253 ROBERTSON, REV. WILLIAM, D.D. ; historian ; born 
 1721 ; celebrated for his eloquence ; influential 
 member of the General Assembly ; Chaplain in
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 147 
 
 Ordinary to the King 1761 ; Principal of Edinburgh 
 University 1762-1793 ; published History of Scotland 
 1759, Reign of Charles V. 1769, History of America 
 1777 ; died 1793. 
 
 Lent by the University of Edinburgh. 
 
 254 ROBISOK, PEOFESSOE JOHX, LL.D. ; born 1739; tutor 
 
 to son of Admiral Knowles ; surveyed coasts and 
 harbours of St. Lawrence ; acquainted with Watt ; 
 employed by the Empress of Russia ; Professor of 
 Natural Philosophy, Edinburgh, 1773 ; Secretary of 
 the Royal Society of Edinburgh ; wrote Elements of 
 Mechanical Philosophy, On the Motion of Light, &c. ; 
 died 1805. 
 
 Lent by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
 
 255 SAME. 
 
 Lent by the University of Edinburgh. 
 
 BOLLARD, ADAM, of Gask; Advocate; died 1819; 
 supposed by some to have suggested Sir W. Scott's 
 "Plevdell" in the Antiquary (see Lord Cockburn's 
 Memorials, pp. 360-3). 
 
 Lent by the Misses Abercrombie. 
 
 257, 258. SAME. (Two pictures.) 
 
 Lent by Adam Rolland, Esq., of Gask. 
 
 259 HOLLAND, JAMES. 
 
 Lent by Adam Holland^ Esq., of Gask. 
 
 10 *
 
 148 APPENDIX. 
 
 260 EOSEBERY, NEIL, (third) EARL OP, K.T. ; born 1728 ; 
 
 succeeded his father 1756 ; married, 1st, 1764, Susan, 
 sister and heiress of Sir Randal Ward, Bart. ; and, 
 2ndly, 1775, Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Vincent, 
 Bart., by whom he had, with other issue, Archibald, 
 his successor ; died 1814. 
 Lent by the Earl of Rosebery. 
 
 Eoss, ELEANOR JANE. (See MRS. EGBERT BELL, 
 No. 16.) 
 
 261 Eoss, WALTER; son of John Eoss, W.S. Painted 
 
 about 1822. 
 
 Lent by John Cook, Esq., W.S. 
 
 262 EUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM ; grandson of John, fourth 
 
 Duke of Bedford, KG.; born 1767; married, 1789, 
 Charlotte Anne, daughter of George, fourth Earl of 
 Jersey ; was murdered by his valet in May 1840. 
 Lent by the Right Hon. W. P. Adam, M.P., of Blair- 
 adam. 
 
 263 EUSSELL, MRS. ; Mary, daughter of Sir Alexander 
 
 Bannerman, of Elsick, Kincardine, fourth Baronet. 
 Lent by Charles M. Barstowe, Esq., C.A. 
 
 EUSSELL, Miss. (See MRS. ANDREW WOOD, No. 323.) 
 
 264 SANDS, MAJOR, W. J, H.E.I.C.S. 
 
 Lent by Miss Sands.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 149 
 
 SCOTT, SIB WAI/TEE, BABT., of Abbotsford ; noyelist, 
 poet, historian, and antiquary ; born in Edinburgh 
 1771 ; son of a Writer to the Signet ; educated at 
 High School and Edinburgh University ; articled to 
 his father ; called to the Scottish Bar 1792 ; published 
 translations of Burger and Goethe 1796-9; Sheriff- 
 Depute of Selkirkshire 1799; wrote Minstrelsy of 
 Scottish Border 1802, Waverley 1814, fresh novels 
 issued almost yearly till 1831 ; created Barotet 1820 ; 
 died at Abbotsford 1832. (Full length, painted 
 1808.) 
 
 Lent by the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, 
 K.G. 
 
 266 SAME ; bust size Painted 1823. 
 
 Lent by the Eaeburn Family. 
 
 267 SBLKBIG, CHABLES ; accountant, Edinburgh. 
 
 Lent by James Hay, Esq. 
 
 268 SHIBIFF, LIEUT.-COLOSEL, Madras Army, H.E.LC.S. 
 
 Painted about the end of the 18th century. 
 
 Lent by James D. Gittuspie, Esq., M.D., F.E.C.S.E. 
 
 269 SIXCLAIB, GEOBGE (afterwards Sir George), of 
 Ulbster ; son of Sir John (No. 270) ; born 1790 ; 
 married, 1816, Lady Catherine Camilla, sister of 
 Lionel, sixth Earl of Dysart ; by her (who died 1863) 
 he had, with other issue, John, his successor. Painted 
 about 1794. 
 
 Lent by Alexander Sinclair, Esq.
 
 150 APPENDIX. 
 
 270, 271 SINCLAIR, RIGHT HON SIR JOHN, BART., of 
 Fibster, Caithness ; political economist and philan- 
 thropist ; born 1754 ; educated at High School and 
 University of Edinburgh, and Universities of Glasgow 
 and Oxford ; passed Advocate 1775 ; M.P. for Caith- 
 ness ; originated the Board of Agriculture 1793 ; 
 published Statistical Account of Scotland 1798; wrote 
 on finance and politics ; Colonel of Rothesay and 
 Caithness Fencibles ; raised 2,000 men at the time of 
 the French invasion panic; created Baronet 1786; 
 married, 1st, 1776, Sarah, daughter of Alexander 
 Maitland, of Stoke Newington ; 2ndly, 1788, Diana, 
 daughter of Alexander, first Lord Macdonald, by 
 whom (who died 1845) he had, with other issue, 
 George (No. 269), who succeeded to the title, and 
 William (No. 273) ; died 1835. Two portraits, one 
 painted about 1790, the other about 1794. 
 Lent by Alexander Sinclair, Esq. 
 
 272 SAME. 
 
 Lent by the Raeburn Family. 
 
 273 SINCLAIR, REV. WILLIAM ; a son of Sir John Sinclair 
 
 (No 270) ; boru 1804 ; Rector of Pulborough, Sussex, 
 in 1876 ; married, 1st, 1837, Helen, daughter of Wil- 
 liam Ellice ; she died 1842 ; 2ndly, Sophia, daughter 
 of the Rev. James Tripp, Rector of Spofforth. Painted 
 about 1808. 
 
 Lent by Alexander Sinclair, Esq. 
 
 274 SKENE, JAMES, of Rubislaw; passed Advocate 1797; 
 
 died 1864, at the patriarchal age of 90. 
 Lent by Miss Skene.
 
 LIST Of WORKS. 151 
 
 275 SKKWB, MJBS. ; wife of abore, and daughter of Sir 
 William Forbes, Bart., of Pitsligo. 
 Lemt by JKft Sterne. 
 
 276 SKiEvcf .5, ABCHIBAU) : son of Adam Skining, author 
 
 of Jokmmi* Cops, &ff. ; born 1749 ; studied in Borne ; 
 aettied in Edinburgh as portraitist in crayons ; died 
 atlnvereskl819. 
 
 Lemt by the Saebmrm Family. 
 
 277 SMITH, MB& AUBXASTDEB. 
 
 Lent by David Smitk, Etq. 
 
 278 SMITH, DOXAJJ> : banker, Edinburgh. 
 
 Lemt by Darid SmM, Etq. 
 
 279 SMITH, GEOEGE ; Master of Trinity House. Fainted 
 
 in 1807. 
 
 Lemt by the Incorporation of Trinity Horn**, Lftik. 
 
 born 1728 ; son of Thomas 
 Spens, of Tathallan ; President of the Royal College 
 of Physicians, Edinburgh, 1794-6; married Mary, 
 second daughter of James Millikin, of that Ilk; 
 President of the Royal Company of Archers 1809; 
 Adjutant-General 1810; died 1815. Painted for the 
 Archers 1 Hall, Edinburgh. 
 
 Lemt by the Soyal Company of Artken. 
 
 STTOTAKT, DATID. (See EASJL OF BUCHAV, No. 35.) 
 
 281 anTKvaov, LrjnjT.-GEWKKAi. SIK JAMBS, 
 Barns; died 1850. 
 
 Lemt by Jamet Hope, Eta., ofSebmomL
 
 152 APPENDIX. 
 
 282 STEWART, DANIEL ; founder of Daniel Stewart's 
 Hospital; bom 1741; died 1814. 
 
 Lent by the Merchant Company of Edinburgh. 
 
 283 STIRLING, HELEN ; only child of Robert Stirling ; 
 born 1808 ; died 1822. 
 
 Lent by Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, Bart., M.P., 
 of Keir and Pollok. 
 
 284 STIRLING, JOHN, of Kippendavie, and his youngest 
 daughter, JANE; he was the representative of an old 
 branch of the ancient baronial family of De Strive- 
 ling, or Stirling, of Keir; his second daughter, 
 Margaret, was married to James, tenth Lord Tor- 
 phichen. Painted about 1814. , 
 
 Lent by John Stirling, Esq., of Kippendavie. 
 
 285 STODART, ROBERT, of Kailzie, Peebleshire, and of 
 
 Ormiston Hill, Edinburgh. 
 
 Lent by Robert S. Wyld, Esq., LL.D. 
 
 286 STOTHERT, WILLIAM, of Cargeu. Painted about 
 
 1817. 
 
 Lent by the Rev. W. Burton Alexander. 
 
 287 STUART, SIR JOHN, BART., of Fettercairn ; M.P. for 
 county of Kincardine 1797 ; Baron of Exchequer 
 1807 ; died 1821. 
 
 Lent by Lord Clinton.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 153 
 
 288 SUTTIK, GEORGE, KE.LC.S.; son of Sir George 
 
 Snttie, third Baronet,, of Balgone, Haddingtonshire. 
 Painted about 1795. 
 
 Lent by Sir George Grant Snttie, Bart., of Pretton- 
 grange and Balgone. 
 
 289 SUTTIE, Miss JJLXET ; daughter of Sir James Suttie. 
 
 (See LAJ>Y Sums, No. 290.) Painted about 1818. 
 Lent by Sir George Grant Snttie, Bart., of Pretton- 
 grange and Balgone. 
 
 290 SCTTLE, LADY; Katlierine Isabella, daughter of 
 
 J. Hamiltoun, of Bangour; married, 1792, to Sir 
 James Suttie, fourth Baronet, of Balgone, who was 
 born 1759, represented Haddingtonshire in three 
 Parliaments, succeeded, in 1818, his aunt, Janet Grant, 
 Countess of Hjndford, as heir of line, in the estates 
 of Preston Grange, and assumed in consequence the 
 additional surname and arms of Grant ; he died 1836. 
 Painted about 1795. 
 
 Lent by Sir George Grant Suttie, Bart., of Prtf ton- 
 grange and Balgone. 
 
 291 SUTTIK, Miss MAROARET; daughter of Sir James 
 
 Suttie (** No. 290). Painted about 1818. 
 
 Lent by Sir George Grant Snttie, Bart., of Proton- 
 grange and Balgone. 
 
 292 Snc, ROBERT, W.S. ; born in Glasgow 1752 ; came to 
 
 Edinburgh in his youth ; a man of mark in literary 
 society; uncle of "Christopher North" and the 
 "Timothy Tickler" of the Node* Ambrotiana; died 
 in 1844. 
 
 Lent by Mr*. Margaret Anne Ferrur.
 
 154 APPENDIX. 
 
 293 TAIT, JOHN, of Harviestoun (where he received the 
 
 poet Burns) and Cumloden ; witnessed the battle of 
 Falkirk ; Writer to the Signet ; married *a daughter of 
 Murdoch, of Cumloden, in Gralloway ; his son, Crauford 
 Tait, married Susan Campbell, daughter of the Lord 
 President, and had a large family, of whom the Sheriff, 
 represented in No. 294, was the eldest and the late 
 Archbishop of Canterbury the youngest ; Mr. Tait 
 died in 1800, aged 73. An earlier portrait than the 
 next following. 
 Lent ly Mr. Tait. 
 
 294 SAME as above, with grandchild JOHN ; the figure of 
 
 the grandchild was inserted after the death of the 
 former; the grandchild was born in 1796 ; educated 
 at High School, Edinburgh, and at Harrow, Edinburgh 
 University, and Geneva ; called to the Bar 1819 ; 
 Sheriff of Clackmannan and Kinross ; Sheriff of Perth 
 1866 ; married his first cousin, Mary Amelia, daughter 
 of Francis Sitwell, of Barmoor Castle, Northumber- 
 land. 
 
 Lent by Mr. Tait. 
 
 295 TELFORD, THOMAS ; eminent civil engineer ; son of a 
 
 shepherd in Eskdale, Dumfriesshire; born 1757; at 
 the age of 14 apprenticed to a stone-mason ; in 1780 
 went to Edinburgh and studied architecture and 
 drawing ; removed to London, employed at Somerset 
 House, then erecting by Sir William Chambers ; 
 erected iron bridge over the Severn at Buildwas, 
 besides forty smaller bridges in the same county. 
 His first great work was the Ellesmere Canal, sanc- 
 tioned by Parliament in 1793, constructed of cast-iron 
 plates and masonry ; this canal and the aqueduct- 
 bridge over the Dee Valley were executed between
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 155 
 
 1795 and 1805. The Caledonian Canal is another of 
 his principal works. He superintended the construc- 
 tion of many other canals, amongst them the Gotha 
 Canal in Sweden ; he designed the Menai Suspension 
 Bridge opened in 1826, St. Katherine's Docks, London, 
 opened in 1828 ; has left valuable contributions to 
 engineering literature ; President of the Institution 
 of Civil Engineers 1820 ; died 1834, and was buried 
 in Westminster Abbey. Painted about 1812. 
 Lent by Mrs. Surge. 
 
 296 THOMSON, REV. ANDREW, D.D. ; an eminent divine 
 
 and most popular preacher ; born at Sanquhar, Dum- 
 friesshire; minister of St. George's, Edinburgh; 
 prominent member of the Evangelical partv in the 
 Established Church ; well known as a debater, orator, 
 and controversialist ; died 1831, aged 53. 
 Lent by the Baeburn Family. 
 
 297 THOMSON, BET. JOHN; born in Ayrshire 1778; emi- 
 
 nent as a landscape painter; became minister of 
 Duddingston 1805 ; an admirable scholar, and with 
 great taste for music ; friend of most of the eminent 
 men of the time ; died 1840, aged 63. 
 Lent by the Baeburn Family. 
 
 298 THOMSON, JOHN ; merchant, Edinburgh. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Bell. 
 
 THOMSON, Miss MABGABET, of Camphill. (See MBS. 
 JAMBS MOXTBTTH, No. 225.) 
 
 299 THOMSON, THOMAS ; born 1768 ; educated at Glasgow 
 
 for the Church, and in Edinburgh for the Law ; passed
 
 156 .. APPENDIX. 
 
 Advocate 1793; Deputy Clerk Register 1806; a 
 Principal Clerk of Session 1828 ; President of Ban- 
 natyne Club 1832 ; edited Acts of the 'Parliament of 
 Scotland 1814-24, Acts of Lords of Council 1839, 
 Ragman Rolls 1834, Ac. ; died 1852, aged 84. 
 Painted about 1822. 
 
 Lent by the Right Hon. T. F. Kennedy, of Dunure. 
 11 TICKLER, TIMOTHY." (See ROBERT SYM, No. 292.) 
 
 300 TOD, JOHN, of Kirkhill ; Writer to the Signet. 
 
 Lent by Alexander Tod, Esq. 
 
 301 TORPHICHEN, LADY; Anne, daughter of Sir John 
 
 Inglis, Bart., of Cramond ; married, 1795, to James, 
 ninth Baron Torphicheu, who was born 1759, was a 
 lieut.-colonel, and a representative peer, and died 
 without issue in 1815, when the barony descended to 
 his first cousin James. 
 
 Lent by Lord Torphichen. 
 
 302 TROTTER, MRS. ANN, of Bush. 
 
 Lent by Lieut.-Colonel Trotter. 
 
 303 TROTTER, ARCHIBALD, of Bush, Midlothian. 
 
 Lent by Lieut.-Colonel Trotter. 
 
 304 VERB, MRS., of Stonebyres; Jacobina, daughter of 
 
 Lady Raeburn by her first husband, Count Leslie, and 
 step-daughter of Sir Henry Raeburn ; wife of Daniel 
 Vere of Stonebyres, the last representative in the 
 male line of an ancient English family, for centuries 
 resident in Lanarkshire. 
 
 Lent by James T. Gibson- Craig, Esq.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 157 
 
 305 WARDROP, JAMBS, MJ). ; born 1782 at Torban HiU, 
 
 Lrnlithgowsbire ; famous oculist, and surgeon in 
 Ordinary to King George IV. ; had a large collection 
 of pictures ; died 1869. 
 
 Lent by Maitland Wardrop, Esq. 
 
 306 WARDROP, of Torban Hill. 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Arthur Shirley. 
 
 307 WATSOH, WALTER T. ; son of Captain Andrew Watson, 
 
 late of Hunthill. Portrait in French crayon or pastel. 
 Painted about 1796. 
 Lent by Dr. Sidey. 
 
 308 WAUCHOPB, AXDRBW, of Niddrie, Midlothian. 
 
 Lent by Captain W. Wavchope, of Niddrie. 
 
 309 WAUCHOPE, JAKES ; Advocate ; eldest son of John 
 
 Wauchope, of Edmonstone (No. 310), and Anne 
 Erstine (No. 101) ; born 1767 ; died 1797. 
 
 Lent by Sir John Don Wauchope, Bart., of Edmon- 
 stone, 
 
 310 WAUCHOPE, JOHK, of Edmonstone ; born 1742 ; mar- 
 
 ried, 1766, Anne, daughter of John Erskine, of Dun, 
 and aunt of Margaret, Marchioness of Ailsa; died 
 1810. 
 
 Lent by Sir John Don Wauchope, Bart., of Edmo*- 
 stone. 
 
 WACCHOPE, Mas. Jomc (See AKKB ERSKIXE, No. 
 101) wife of above.
 
 158 APPENDIX. 
 
 311 WAUCHOPE, COLONEL JOHN, of Edmonstone ; second 
 
 son of John Waucbope and Anne Erskine ; born 
 1769; married, 1815, Henrietta Cecilia,* daughter of 
 Sir James Gardiner Baird, Bart., of Saughton Hall ; 
 died 1837. 
 
 Lent by Sir John Don Waucliope, Bart., of Edmon- 
 stone. 
 
 312 WAUCHOPE, JOHN. 
 
 Lent by Miss Sands. 
 
 313 WEDDEEBURN, JAMES ; son of James Wedderburn, of 
 
 Inveresk, and grandson of Sir John Wedderburn, 
 fifth Baronet ; born 1782 ; Advocate ; married Isa- 
 bella, daughter of James Clerk (and sister of the 
 Eight Hon. Sir George Clerk, Bart., of Penicuik, 
 and niece of Sir John Clerk, No. 57) ; appointed 
 Solicitor-General for Scotland 1816 ; died 1822. 
 Lent by Colin Mackenzie, Esq., W.S. 
 
 314 WEDDERBURN, MRS. ISABELLA CLERK, OR ; wife of 
 
 above ; daughter of James Clerk, brother of Sir John 
 Clerk (No. 57). 
 
 Lent by Colin Mackenzie, Esq., W.S. 
 
 WELWOOD, HON. ALEXANDER MACONOCHIE. (See 
 
 LORD MEADOWBANK, No. 220.) 
 
 WELWOOD, MRS. (See ANNE BLAIR, No. 19.) 
 
 315 WELWOOD, ELIZABETH ; wife of first Lord Meadow- 
 
 bank ; daughter of Eobert Welwood, of Garvoch (see 
 No. 244). Painted in 1818, at the age of 68. 
 
 Lent by Allan A. Maconochie Welwood, Esq., of 
 Meadowbank.
 
 LIST OF WORKS. 159 
 
 WXEWOOD, MKSL BOBBKT. (See MART PRESTOS, BTo. 
 844 
 
 316 WKLI.WOOD, RET. Sis HETRT MOMCRKIFF. Bart.. 
 DJX (* MOJTCBEIFF, 3fo. 223). 
 
 lie ?r. 6Vr Hairy 
 B * 
 
 317 WKXTSS, FKATCIS, (seventh) EAKI. OF; tx>ra 1779; 
 married, 1794, Margaret, daughter of Walter Camp- 
 fcell,of Sbavfield; succeeded his grandfather lft ; 
 inherited the Earldom of March, and lands and lord- 
 ship of Neidpath, at the demise of William, fourth 
 Duke of QimiMlunj 1810, as heir male of his great- 
 great- grandmother, Ladj Anne Douglas, first wife of 
 David, third Bui of Wemjss, daughter of William. 
 first Duke of Qneensberrf, and sister of the Hon. 
 William Douglas, who was created Earl of March 
 1697. The Earl of Wemjss was enrolled amongst 
 the peers of the United Kingdom as Baron Wemjss, 
 of Wemjss, Kfeshire, 1821 : died 1853; succeeded 
 by Francis, his eldest son. Fainted 1812. 
 Lett byfkeEarl *f Werny** amd JfardL 
 
 318 WEMTBS, Commas OF. 
 
 Lemt by OK Sari of Wemya 
 
 319 WIUJAMS, HCGH WIUJAM ; landscape painter; 
 author of IWrrf* m Italy amJ Gr***>, e.-, died 
 
 Lett by tk* SaAmrm family.
 
 160 APPENDIX. 
 
 320 WILSON, PROFESSOR JOHN (" Christopher North ") ; 
 
 born 1785 ; educated at Glasgow and Oxford ; resided 
 at Elleray, in the Lake District, where he lived on 
 terms of intimacy with the Lake Poets ; published 
 Isle of Palms 1812 ; passed Advocate 1815 ; wrote for 
 Slackwood ; wrote City of Plague 1816 ; Professor of 
 Moral Philosophy, Edinburgh, 1820 ; Nodes Ambro- 
 siancB begun 1825 ; died 1854. 
 
 Lent by the Royal Scottish Academy. 
 
 321 WOOD, ANDREW ; surgeon, well known in Edinburgh ; 
 
 born 1742 ; died 1821. 
 
 Lent by Dr. Andrew Wood, F.E.C.S.E. 
 
 322 SAME (miniature). 
 
 Lent by Mrs. Edmondtitone. 
 
 323 WOOD, MRS. ANDREW (Miss Eussell) ; wife of above ; 
 
 born 1754; died 1845. 
 
 Lent by Dr. Andrew Wood, F.E.C.S.E. 
 
 324 WYLD, MRS., of G-ilston. 
 
 Lent by Robert S. Wyld, Esq., LL.D. 
 
 WYNNE, Miss JUSTINE CAMILLA. (See MRS. ALEX- 
 
 ANDER PlNLAY, No. 112.) 
 
 325 YOUTH, STUDY OF A. Painted in Rome. 
 
 Lent by James T. Gibson-Craig, Esq. 
 
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