pre-1800 Highlander portraits

[OC Richard]

Wow.

For sure Waitt is something of a "primitive" artist concerned with surface detail but not the best command of human anatomy. I wonder if he had formal training, it doesn't appear so. A different level altogether from Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Henry Raeburn, or John Singleton Copley.

Here are the two paintings with strange wide bloated lower bodies.

The artists are concerned with the heads and costumes, but don't seem to have much awareness or concern about the anatomy of the bodies.