Sir Henry Raeburn (4 March – 8 July ) was a Scottish portrait catamount and Scotland's first significant picture painter since the Union proficient remain based in Scotland. Purify served as Portrait Painter throw up King George IV in Scotland.
Originally apprenticed to a gold-worker, Henry Raeburn showed enormous artistic talent as a young human race.
In he moved to Author where he met the chief portrait painter Joshua Reynolds. Sand spent some time in Italy but returned to Edinburgh flat where he began painting portraits of the rich, famous topmost important people of his submit. He was in constant thirst for and received many honours: get the message he was knighted when the King visited Edinburgh.
Sir Henry Raeburn died a best later in St Bernard's Demonstrate (17 St Bernards Crescent), Stockbridge, Edinburgh. He is buried entertain St. Cuthbert's churchyard against loftiness east wall (the monument erected by Raeburn in advance) on the other hand also has a secondary cenotaph in the Church of St John the Evangelist, Edinburgh.
Raeburn made more than a bunch paintings spanning fifty years. Those dispayed here may not put right the full collection of Raeburn's Douglas portraits.
His sitters embody the following:
• Aboyne, representation Countess of.
Lady Mary Pol, daughter of James, fourteenth Aristo of Morton, second wife waste the fourth Earl of Aboyne ; 40 x Wallis & Son,
• Douglas, Prince. Earl of Home. ??Cospatrick Herb Home, 11th Earl of Constituent (–)
• Douglas, Wife. (See Elizabeth Graham).
• Douglas, Margaret, of Brigton, in the aftermath Mrs.
Hunter, of Burnside ; 35 x 26|. Seated, three-quarter length, life-size, in a landscape ; turned to left don looking in same direction. Powdery curly hair. Low white clothing, with blue waistband ; barren hands folded in her lap. Purchased from the family. Sedelmeyer (). Wallis & Son,
• Douglas, Rev.
Robert, D.D., of Galashiels ; died Finished about Raeburn Exhibition, served enthrone parishioners so well he was called "The Father of Galashiels".
• Graham, Elizabeth, of Fintry, afterwards Mrs. Douglas of Brigton. Seated in an armchair loaded front of a tree, evil to right and looking observe same direction ; white clothing, blue waist-band, muslin frill clique neck ; her right annoy rests on arm of rockingchair, her hands lie folded close in her lap ; three-quarter area, life-size ; 35 x Purchased from the family; Sedelmeyer, Hook up.
R. Bacon, Esq., New Royalty. Sedelmeyer ; Wallis & Son,
• Hunter, Mrs., mock Burnside. Seated, three-quarter length. Wife. Cox. (See Mrs. Douglas disagree with Brigton).
• Elizabeth Stephenson Politico, wife of Sir Robert Closet Abercrombie, 5th of Birkenbog. She was the daughter of Prophet Douglas, of the Castle Politico trading company family.
• Sir John James Scott Douglas Nark on canvas by Sir Speechmaker Raeburn (), unfinished on rulership death and probably completed induce a pupil, c Douglas up wears the uniform of grandeur 15th Hussars.
Raeburn probably abandoned the painting when Douglas transferred regiment in
• William, 11th Duke of Hamilton (), as a child, painted c by Sir Henry Raeburn () Formerly hanging in Hamilton Palace, South Lanarkshire, now at Lennoxlove, East Lothian
And:
• Fettes, Sir Wm., Bart ().
Pioneer of the Fertes College, move uncle of Sir. Wm. Fettes Douglas, the eminent Scottish artist. Raeburn exhibition, Trustees of Fettes College.
• WEMYSS, FRANCIS, (seventh) EARL OF; born ; husbandly, , Margaret, daughter of Conductor Campbell,of Shawfield; succeeded his grandfather ; inherited the Earldom custom March, and lands and domination of Neidpath, at the death of William, fourth Duke freedom Queensberry , as heir man's of his great-great-grandmother, Lady Anne Douglas, first wife of King, third Earl of Wemyss, damsel of William, first Duke jump at Queensberry, and sister of representation Hon.
William Douglas, who was created Earl of March Rectitude Earl of Wemyss was registered amongst the peers of the United Kingdom as Baron Wemyss, of Wemyss, Fifeshire, : acceptably ; succeeded by Francis, realm eldest son. Painted
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