Historic Painting Thread

[Uncletom]

WOW!! Great images!!! The apparel is fabulous!!!! Thanks to you all!! ,uncletom

[Morris at Heathfield]

There's a story that, as Montrose was being led to Edinburgh in rags, a MacNaughton took off his plaid and handed it to him. For this reason he is depicted in the MacNaughton tartan in Drummond's painting. Also, there is a Red Graham (of Montrose) tartan that is almost identical to the MacNaughton tartan.

[BoldHighlander]

"Highland Tod, Fox Hunter" by Richard Ansdell 1859

[BoldHighlander]

I'm a big fan of Richard Ansdell's work, and I think if one wishes to recreate the look of the "common" highland shepherd, gameskeeper, etc during the Victorian age; then his works from the era are great to study.
Here are a few more:

"Washing the sheep"




"Picking out the lambs"




"The sick lamb"

[BoldHighlander]

from a website devoted to Ansdell, hosted by his great-great-granddaughter (http://www.richardansdell.co.uk/):
"After he had discovered Scotland and had built his own Lodge there on the banks of Loch Laggan, he spent time north of the border whenever he could – painting many Scottish subjects – stags in glens, sheep on hillsides, moorland/mountain scenes, sheep-dipping, everyday scenes in a shepherd’s life, shooting parties."

"The Scotch Gamekeeper"


"Crossing the Moor"


"Crossing the Moor" (II)


& the ever poignant "Lost in the storm"

[McMurdo]

There's a story that, as Montrose was being led to Edinburgh in rags, a MacNaughton took off his plaid and handed it to him. For this reason he is depicted in the MacNaughton tartan in Drummond's painting. Also, there is a Red Graham (of Montrose) tartan that is almost identical to the MacNaughton tartan.

As a Graham, I am well aware of the story, but thank you for bringing it up here. I do like the Red Graham tartan very much indeed.

[McMurdo]

I thought I'd put this one in as well


William Craig Shirreff
Mary, Queen of Scots Escaping from Loch Leven Castle1805

In 1805, this painting won a student prize for Shirreff while he was at the Trustees’ Academy. He chose an episode from the life of Mary, Queen of Scots which had been related by Gilbert Stuart in his influential ‘History of Scotland’ (1783). In a letter to his father the young artist wrote: 'I have taken the point of time when Lord Seaton is receiving Mary from the boat, and young George Douglas handing her on and one of the attendants holding the horse that the Queen is to ride on. I am very pleased with it myself.' By the early nineteenth century, Mary was a popular romantic heroine. William Lizars, one of Shirreff’s friends, engraved this painting after the young artist’s premature death.