pre-1800 Highlander portraits

[DCampbell16B]

John the Bank is 3/4 as well (depends on which site you're looking at). Hesketh's book has a good image. The coat skirts are old enough style that the sporran is mostly covered.

@figheadair is there a similarity of the kilt material between the Pryse Campbell portrait and of John the Bank?

[figheadair]

John the Bank is 3/4 as well (depends on which site you're looking at). Hesketh's book has a good image. The coat skirts are old enough style that the sporran is mostly covered.

@figheadair is there a similarity of the kilt material between the Pryse Campbell portrait and of John the Bank?

Beyond both being predominantly red, not really.

[figheadair]

c.1710 - Portrait of a Highlander, Richard Waitt

c.1730 - John Stuart 3rd Earl of Bute by William Aikman

c.1735-45 - A Jacobite Group in St James Park by Peter John van Reysschoot

c.1745-6 - Lord George Murray (at Blair Castle)

c.1750 - Figures from the wall painting at Loevestein Castle, Netherlands

1756 - James Francis Edward Moray, Yr of Abercairney by William Mosman

1766 - Hon William Gordon by Botinelli

c.1790 - Alasdair Ranaldson MacDonell, 15th Chief of Glengarry by Angelica Kauffmann

[OC Richard]

c.1710 - Portrait of a Highlander, Richard Waitt

c.1730 - John Stuart 3rd Earl of Bute by William Aikman

c.1735-45 - A Jacobite Group in St James Park by Peter John van Reysschoot

c.1745-6 - Lord George Murray (at Blair Castle)

c.1750 - Figures from the wall painting at Loevestein Castle, Netherlands

1756 - James Francis Edward Moray, Yr of Abercairney by William Mosman

1766 - Hon William Gordon by Botinelli

c.1790 - Alasdair Ranaldson MacDonell, 15th Chief of Glengarry by Angelica Kauffmann

Thanks! I knew I had missed some.

So what's the thing with the Lord George Murray portrait? (If such it can rightly be called.)

John Telfer Dunbar says

"His portrait, in a white shirt and stock, plain coat, and waistcoat was painted by Jeremiah Davidson.

There is, however, at Blair Castle, a picture of Jacobite Highlanders the central figure of which appears to be Lord George Murray, copied from the Davidson portrait.

In 1745 he would have been 51 years of age, and the man in the Blair Castle portrait certainly looks younger.

In 1894 the Duke of Atholl was unable to trace any history or tradition attached to the picture."

This sounds much like the Prince Charles "propaganda pictures" as Dunbar calls them, earlier portraits done from life of Charlies in ordinary dress which around the '45 were copied and altered to show him in Highland Dress. Evidently Charles never sat for a portrait in Highland Dress.

[DCampbell16B]

Beyond both being predominantly red, not really.

Thank you.

[OC Richard]

John the Bank is 3/4 as well (depends on which site you're looking at). Hesketh's book has a good image.

Thanks for directing my attention to Hesketh, where I saw some portraits that aren't in Dunbar.