Historic Painting Thread

[BoldHighlander]

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[McMurdo]

By Richard Cooper

The print (which does not explicitly name its subject, referring to him dismissively as ‘the Son of the Pretender’) advertises the massive reward of £30,000 offered by the British government in early August 1745 for the capture of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, who had landed in Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides in late July. Its satirical thrust derives largely from the prince’s balletic pose and elaborate Highland costume or ‘Disguise’. This is the first image to depict the prince clad in tartan.

[McMurdo]

James Drummond
Montrose
Dated 1859

James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, raised an army on behalf of Charles II and won many victories in the Highlands. He was eventually captured by treachery, and is here shown dragged by the public executioner on a cart up the Royal Mile, past the balcony of Moray House, where his greatest enemies, the Marquis of Argyll and his family, were watching. Drummond had a profound knowledge of the buildings of old Edinburgh and was a passionate collector of many of the kinds of object - Highland weapons and costumes - which feature in this picture. He based his story upon a poem by William Edmondstoune Aytoun, which presents Montrose as a betrayed saint or martyr to the Royalist cause.

[BoldHighlander]

This print is part of the Boyd Album, a collection of prints and documents collected together by the Boyd Family and now in the collection of Dean castle.

[McMurdo]

I'm not sure of the age of this piece but it is now in my collection, being a great admirer of Burns I could not be happier with the print. It was given to me after my uncle passed away he was 85 and it was his fathers or perhaps his grandfathers. I've still got to research it. Anyway I thought I'd add it here. I think it may be something done for an anniversary of Burns' death as the print includes the memorial in Dumfries and the bridges over the river Doon. It has the mark John McGready Publisher Glasgow.

[BoldHighlander]

From the Victorian era, one of my favorites done of Victoria & John Brown:

[BoldHighlander]

I have been waiting some time to add this one to XMTS
Though not too many visible kilts, its another of my favorites from the Victorian era:



Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and royal retinue fording the River Tarff in Glen Tilt, painted by Carl Haag in 1861.