Historic Painting Thread

[Ancienne Alliance]

[Ancienne Alliance]

Flora MacDonald...

Thus ends my contribution for this thread.

I really enjoyed loking back at the shoe wear, the sporrans... the accessories !

I hope you enjoyed these.



Best,

Robert

[JSFMACLJR]

Excellent contributions, Robert! Thank you so much for adding them.

[Morris at Heathfield]

John Drummond, 4th Duke of Perth, 1739



Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, ca. 1780



Neil Gow, 1787



Patrick Grant, 1822. The last surviving Jacobite soldier when George IV visited Edinburgh. The King offered Grant and his daughter a state pension as a gesture of reconciliation.

[Ancienne Alliance]

Here are a few more… unfortunately I don’t know much about them.


Best,

Robert

[NewPiperinNY]

Thank you all for your contributions to a fine thread... very entertaining..

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

I'm not aware of the artist, although I believe the scene is from Kidnapped or Catriona (not sure if I'm on sold ground here) and probably depicts Allen Breck Stewart in Cluny Macpherson's cage. I think it's a great, schmaltzy, kind of painting and I'd love to have it over the mantle in my library!

Heathfield-- Thanks for pointing out the correct title "Rob Roy and the Baillie". Now if I can only find a high resolution print...

[Morris at Heathfield]

Close. I have that painting in a book. It's called "For Better or Worse - Rob Roy and the Baillie", painted by John Watson Nicol in 1886.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

I love that picture of Patrick Grant. Thanks for posting it. Notice he is wearing both plaid and sporran with his trews, and that his plaid and trews are in two different tartans (neither are Grant tartans). His plaid is the Prince Charles Edward Stewart tartan, an early form of the Royal Stewart, and the one used as the basis for the Carolina tartan.

[Rollo]

Thanks Matt for these interesting precisions !