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LOAN EXHIBITION of PICTURES by R A E B U R N

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14 EAST 57TH STREET NEW YORK

MRS. VERE, OF STONEBYRES

Canvas, 37% x 47J4

Jacobina, daughter of Lady Raeburn and her first hus­ band, Count Leslie; therefore step-daughter of the artist. Married Daniel Vere, of Stonebyres, Sheriff Substitute, of Lanarkshire, who was the last representative in the male line of an old English family long resident in Lanarkshire.

Exhibited: Raeburn Exhibition, National Galleries, Edinburgh, 1876, number 30, by James T. Gibson-Craig. Scottish Old Masters, Grafton Galleries, London, i895. Paterson's Gallery, 1900, number 15, by W. A. Coats. Paterson's Gallery, 1901, number 6, by W. A. Coats. Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and In­ dustry, Glasgow, 1911: Fine Art Section, number 58, by W. A. Coats. Catalogued: "Raeburn" by Armstrong, page 113. "Raeburn" by Grieg, page 62. "Raeburn" by Pinnington, 1904, page 251, number 664. "Raeburn" by W. Raeburn Andrew, 1886, page 156, number 304. Collections: James T. Gibson-Craig, Esq. W. A. Coats, Esq. Mrs. John M. Keiller, Dundee. From the collection of the late Senator W. A. Clark.

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"PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN DAVID BIRRELL"

Canvas, 40J4 x 50J4

Captain David Birrell was in the service of the Hon. East India Company, in the uniform of which Raeburn painted him. At the time of his death, which took place June 15, 1800, at Futtygurh in India, he had become a Major in the Service.

Exhibited: Agnew's Exhibition, London, 1903, number 11. French Gallery, Edinburgh, 1909, number 4. Scottish Exhibition, Glasgow, 1911, number 170, lent by John A. Holms, Esq. Raeburn Exhibition, French Galleries, London, 1911, number 3; reproduced in the catalogue.

Reproduced: "Studio" for February, 1908, facing page 16.

Catalogued: "Raeburn" by James Greig, 1911, page 40; mentioned page xxxiv.

Collections: This picture was probably painted by the artist for Captain David Birrell himself; it was afterwards in the possession of Captain George Birrell, his brother, also in the East India Company's Service. It was sold by Mrs. Maria I. McLeod, grand-niece of Captain David Birrell, to whose mother it had been bequeathed, and it now comes from the col­ lection of John A. Holms, Esq., of Formakin.

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GENERAL SIR WILLIAM MAXWELL, OF CALDERWOOD, BART.

Canvas, 39^ x 49^ Painted about 1812 William Maxwell, eldest son of Alexander Maxwell (younger brother of Sir William Maxwell, 5th Bart.) and his wife, Mary Clerk (of the family of Clerk of Penny- cuik), was born December 4, 1754. He entered the army at an early age and was appointed an ensign in the 20th Foot, September, 1763; in 1776 he joined the expedition for North America, under General Burgoyne, and served in the cam­ paigns of that and the following year. He was in the action of Freeman's Farm, September 19, 1777, when his regiment lost very heavily and after the convention of Saratoga he remained a prisoner for six months. In 1778 he returned to England, became a major in the 30th Foot with which regiment he went to New York in June, 1779 and served in that campaign and part of the next under Sir Henry Clinton; assisted in the capture of a large mili­ tary depot at Richmond, Virginia, in December, 1780; served in Virginia until the troops joined the army from Chariest own under Earl Cornwallis in 1781, which campaign terminated with the siege of Yorktown by the French and Americans, and on Lord Cornwallis' capitulation he again became a prisoner. On returning to England, he was ap­ pointed in December, 1782, lieutenant-colonel of the 91st Foot; he obtained the rank of colonel in October, 1793; lieutenant-colonel of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, September, 1794; major-general, 1795; lieutenant-general, 1802; colonel of the 3rd Royal Veteran Battalion, 1807, and full general in 1812. In 1792, he married Isabella, daughter and heiress of Henry Wilson, of Newbottle, County Durham, by whom

2 he had four sons. He succeeded his cousin, Sir William Maxwell, the 6th Bart, in 1829. General Sir William Maxwell died in Edinburgh, March 16, 1837, at the age of 82, and was interred in the burying ground of St. John's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh. He was succeeded by his eldest son, William Alexander, and on the death of Sir William Maxwell, 9th Bart, his line became extinct.

Exhibited: Raeburn Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1876, number 250; lent by Sir William Maxwell, of Calderwood Bart. Agnew's Exhibition, 1907, number 27. Berlin, 1908, number 39. Copenhagen, 1908, number 23.

Mentioned: "Sir Henry Raeburn," by Wm. Raeburn Andrew, M.A,. 1886, page 140, number 219. "Raeburn," by Edward Pinnington, 1904, page 239, number 219.

Catalogued: "Raeburn," by Sir Walter Armstrong, 1901, page 108. "Raeburn," by James Greig, 1911, page 53.

Reproduced: "Studio," February, 1908, as frontispiece in color. Collections: Captain Gill. (Sir William Alexander Maxwell, 7th Bart, married Catherine Cameron, daughter of Wil­ liam Logan, of Fingalton, County Lanark, and widow of Captain Henry Paget Gill of the 50th Foot, who died October 13, 1866. W. Lockett Agnew, Esq.

3 3 COLONEL FRANCIS JAMES SCOTT

Canvas, 403^ x 50^

Colonel Francis James Scott, of Horsely Hill, in red uni­ form with epaulettes, his left hand on his hip, his right hand resting on his sword; landscape background.

Exhibited: "Twenty Masterpieces of the English School," Exhi­ bition, Agnew's, 1899, number 10. "Royal Academy—Winter Exhibition," 1906, number 57, lent by M. Trevelyan Martin, Esq. "Franco-British Exhibition," 1908, number 58a, lent by Mrs. M. Trevelyan Martin. Catalogued: "Raeburn," by Sir Walter Armstrong, 1901, page in. "Raeburn," by Edward Pinnington, 1904, page 247, number 583. "Raeburn," by James Greig, 1911, page 59.

Reproduced: "Souvenir of the Fine Art Section, Franco-British Exhibition, 1908," by Sir Isidore Spielmann, pages 134 and 135. Collections: Colonel Francis James Scott, who gave it to his friend, James Pillans, Esq. W. S. Pillans, Esq., London. Mrs. M. Trevelyan Martin, whose husband pur­ chased it from the Pillans' Collection in 1899.

4 4 JOHN TAIT, ESQ., OF HARVIESTOUN AND CUM- LODEN, AND HIS GRANDSON, JOHN TAIT

Canvas, 39^ x 49%

John Tait, son of Thomas Tait, of Ludquharn, was born in 1727 and came of a southern Scottish family which had settled in Aberdeenshire in the 17th century as "bonnet- lairds," or yoeman. In 1750, he joined the house of Ronald Craufurd, a Writer to the Signet; in 1763 he married Miss Charles Murdoch, of Cumloden, Galloway. In his old age, he retired to Harviestoun, where he had built a house at the foot of the Ochils, and it was while his guest in the autumn of 1787, that Burns wrote the song "The Banks of the Devon." John Tait died on March 12, 1800, at the age of 73, and was buried at Haviestoun. He left the estates of Harviestoun in Clackmannanshire, and Cumloden in Argyllshire, to his only son, Craufurd, who married, in 1795, Lord President Sir Hay Campbell's younger daugh­ ter, Susan. He had a family of six sons and three daugh­ ters; the eldest son, John, who is painted with his grand­ father, was born February n, 1796, at 2 Park Place, Edin­ burgh, his grandfather's town house, and afterwards his own. John was educated at the High School, Edinburgh, under the famous Dr. Adams, at Harrow under Dr. Butler, and studied law at the University of Edinburgh, and at Geneva. He was called to the Bar in 1819, appointed to the office of Sheriff of Clackmannan and Kinross, and was elected Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. He married, April 30, 1824, Mary Amelia Sitwell, daughter of Francis Sitwell, Esq., of Barmoor Castle, in Northumber- landshire; he died May 22, 1877. Raeburn added the grandson to the picture in 1800, after the grandfather's death.

5 Exhibited: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1863, number 293- Raeburn Exhibition, Royal Academy, Edinburgh, 1876, number 183. Old Scottish Masters, Grafton Gallery, 1895. Scottish National Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1908. Raeburn Exhibition, French Gallery, London, 1911, number 8.

Reproduced: "Portraits of Sir Henry Raeburn," Edinburgh, 1870, by Thomas Annan, Dr. John Brown, and others, number 5. "Raeburn," by R. S. Clouston, (Newnes Art Library), page 28. "A Selection from the Works of Raeburn," by T. and R. Annan, and W. E. Henley, number 6. "Raeburn," by Sir Walter Armstrong, facing page 44; catalogued there on page 113; and mentioned on pages 19 and 76. "Raeburn Exhibition Catalogue," French Gallery, London, 1911. "The Masterpieces of Raeburn," page 45. "Raeburn," by Greig, page 24; catalogued on page 61, and mentioned on page xxxiv. Mentioned: "Raeburn," by Edward Pinnington, page 136, and 194- Collection: Mrs. Pitman, of Edinburgh, great-granddaughter of John Tait the elder.

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GEORGE DRUMMOND, HIS SISTER, MARGARET, AND HIS FOSTER-BROTHER Canvas, 6oj4 x 94% Painted about 1810 George and Margaret, the children of George Harley and Margaret Munro Drummond of Stanmore and Drum- tochty, of the House of Strathallan. George Drummond, banker, of Stanmore and Charing Cross, was born February 12, 18025 ne married April 14, 1831, Marianne, second daughter of Edward Berkeley Portman, Esq., M.P., of Bryanston, Dorset, and sister of the first Viscount Portman. She died December 1, 1842. He died suddenly, at his residence at Wilton Crescent, after attending divine service, on January 5, 1851, leaving a son, George and four daughters. The Drummonds descend from Maurice, cousin and counsellor to Margaret (who married Malcolm III, of Scotland, 1070, and was afterwards canonised; who accom­ panied that queen on her return to Scotland from Hungary. This family has given three queens to Scotland, Margaret Drummond, wife of David II, died 1370; Annabella, wife of John Stewart, Earl of Carrick, afterwards Robert III, and Margaret, privately married to James IV, died of poison in 1501. "Queen Annabella who died 1401, is ancestress of all succeeding sovereigns of Scotland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom." _Sir Bernard Burke. Catalogued: "Raeburn," by James Greig, 1911, page 43. Exhibited: Wrexham, 1876, number 333. "Fair Children Exhibition," Grafton Gallery, London, 1895, number 146. Collection: George Henry Drummond, Esq., of Pitsford Hall, Northampton, grandson of George Drummond, Esq.| of Stanmore, the boy in the picture seated on the pony.

7 6 PORTRAIT OF THE TWO SONS OF DAVID MUNRO BINNING, ESQ.

Canvas, 40 x 50 Painted about 1811

Reproduced: "Sir Henry Raeburn," by Sir Walter Armstrong, page 68; catalogued page 96. "Raeburn," by Edward Pinnington, 1904, facing page 48; catalogued page 219, number 43; mentioned page 90.

Collection: G. H. Monro Home, Esq.

8 7 PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT

Canvas, 24% x 30 Painted 1822-23

Engraved in stipple by William Walker, 1826, and many times in line or stipple on a smaller scale.

Sir Walter Scott, Bart, of Abbotsford; novelist, poet, historian and antiquary; born in Edinburgh, 1771; son of a Writer to the Signet; educated at High School and Edin­ burgh University; called to the Scottish Bar, 1792; the first novel, "Waverley," 1814; created Baronet, 1820; died at Abbotsford, 1832. The following note is written in ink on a piece of the original stretcher inserted in the new stretcher: "Painted by my grandfather, Sir Henry Raeburn "vouched for by L. W. Raeburn, 1876." and Raeburn's seal (Crest: a Rae or Roe deer. Fairburn: "Raeburn of St. Bernards, County Edinburgh, Scotland, a roebuck statant ppr. 'Robur in Deo'—'Strength in God'") is on the same piece of wood.

Mentioned: "Raeburn," photographed by Thomas Annan with bio­ graphical sketches by Dr. John Brown and others, (Edinburgh, circa 1870), pages 8-9 (Raeburn), pages 1-2 (Scott) ; Reproduced number 4. "Raeburn," by William Raeburn Andrew, great- grandson of the artist (London and Edinburgh, 1886), pages 81, 84-7; Catalogued page 149; num­ ber 266. "The Illustrated London News," February 7, 1891, page 167, and Reproduced, page 180. "Raeburn," by Sir Walter Armstrong and J. L. Caw (1901), pages 147, 150-3, 189; and Catalogued page in.

9 "Raeburn," by Edward Pinnington (1904), page 247, number 589. "Raeburn," by James Greig (1911), pages xxvii, xxix; Catalogued, page 59.

Exhibited: Raeburn Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1824, by the Raeburn family. Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1871, by the Raeburn family. Raeburn Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1876, by the Raeburn family. Guelph Exhibition, New Gallery, 1890-1, number 214, lent by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. Royal Academy, Winter Exhibition, 1893, number 2, lent by the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

Collections: Painted by the artist for himself. It remained in his family until May 7, 1877, when it was bought by Glad well. It then passed into the collection of Mr. Duncan, of Benmore, near the Clyde, who sold it to the Baroness Burdett-Coutts in 1888. It now comes from the collection of the Rt. Hon. W. Burdett-Coutts, Esq., M.P., deceased, of Stratton Street, W., and Holly Lodge, Highgate, to whom it was bequeathed by his wife. The late Baron­ ess Burdett-Coutts, Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

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JAMES BYERS OF TONLEY

Canvas, 25 x 3034 Painted in 1809

James Byers, the distinguished antiquary and architect, was the eldest son of Patrick Byers, the Jacobite laird of Tonley (who fled to France after the Battle of Culloden, but returned home some years later on receiving a pardon), and his wife, Janet Moir, was born May 7, 1734. He was educated in France, served for some time in Lord Ogilvie's "Regiment in the French Army. He finally settled in Rome, where he lived for nearly 40 years, leaving it in 1790. He is best remembered nowadays as the owner of the Portland vase (found by excavators working for Pope Barberini Ur­ ban VII, 1623-4, in a marble sarcophagus at the Monte del Grano, Rome), which he afterwards sold to Sir William Hamilton for 1000 pounds; it was bought in at the Duchess of Portland's sale in 1786 for 1029 pounds and was after­ wards deposited in the British Museum by the Duke of Portland. Byers was an intimate friend of Raeburn, and his adviser in Rome; also a friend of Byron and Gibbon. Winckelmann, in his "History of Ancient Art," speaks of him as "a connoisseur in architecture at Rome." He died unmarried at his seat at Tonley, Aberdeenshire, in his eighty- fourth year, September 3, 1817. Raeburn frequently remarked in later life that he owed to Byers whatever advantages his visit to Rome had brought him. The following is written in ink, on a piece of the old stretcher attached to the new stretcher: "Painted by Sir Henry Raeburn, my Grandfather "Vouched for by L. W. Raeburn, 1876."

11 which also bears Raeburn's seal. (Crest: a Rae or Roe deer. Fairburn; "Raeburn of St. Bernards, County Edinburgh, Scotland, a roe-buck statant ppr. 'Robur in Deo'— 'Strength in God'.")

Catalogued: "Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A." by his great-grandson, William Raeburn Andrew, M.A., 1886, page 107, number 39. Mentioned: "Raeburn," by Sir Walter Armstrong, 1901, page 52; catalogued page 97. "Raeburn," by Edward Pinnington, 1904, pages 98, 220, 261. "Raeburn," by James Greig, 1911, pp. xxiv; xxxviii-ix; xlvii; catalogued page 40. Exhibited: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 1863, number 67, lent by John P. Raeburn, Esq. Raeburn Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1876, number 67, lent by the Raeburn family. Edinburgh, 1901, number 177, Loan Exhibition, lent by D. Scott Moncrieff, Esq. French Gallery, London, 1910, number 2. Royal Academy, Old Masters Exhibition, 1904, num­ ber 99, lent by D. Scott Moncrieff, Esq. Collections: Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., who painted the picture for his own gallery of friends. L. W. Raeburn, Esq., grandson of the artist, of Charlesfield. D. Scott-Moncrieff, Esq., of Edinburgh, who purchased it from the Raeburn family sale in 1877. Captain the Hon. Evan Charteris, London.

12 9 PORTRAIT OF MISS DAVIDSON REID

Canvas, 29% x 29^ Painted about 1803

Davidson Reid a noted beauty in Scotland in her day, was the youngest daughter of David Reid, Esq., Commis­ sioner of H. M. Customs for Scotland. She married, Janu­ ary 9, 1806, Maj or-General Alexander Beatson, of the Honorable East India Company's Service, later Governor of St. Helena (1808-1813). She accompanied her husband -to St. Helena when he took up his duties there in 1808. While in India, Beatson had acted as aide-de-camp to the Governor General, the Marquis Wellesley, and he planned the successful attack on Seringapatam in 1799. On his return to England, Beatson experimented in agri­ culture at Knole Farm, near Tunbridge Wells, and Henley, Frant, Sussex. He was the author of several works on the subject. He died July 14, 1833. Mrs. Beatson survived him until 1865, when she died in Edinburgh on September 14th.

Collection: Col. Commandant H. E. ap Rhys Pryce. (Dora Isabella, a daughter of the sitter, and General Beatson, married in 1838 John Pryce, grandfather of the late owner.

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PORTRAIT OF MARGARETTA HENRIETTA LADY HEPBURN

Canvas, 40% x 49 Painted about 1785

Daughter of John Zacharias Beck, of Saxe-Gotha, and widow of Brigadier-General Fraser; married as his second wife, April 19, 1781, Sir George Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Bart, of Smeaton-Hepburn, Haddingtonshire.

Exhibited: Raeburn Exhibition, The French Gallery, London, 1910, November-December, number 23.

Catalogued: "Raeburn," by Greig, page 48.

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PORTRAIT OF MISS ELEANOR URQUHART RAEBURN, Sir Henry; R.A.

Canvas, 25 x 30

Eleanor, daughter of William Urquhart, Esq., Laird of Craigston Castle, by his first wife, Margaret Irvine. The Urquharts (now Pollard-Urquharts), of Craigston, are a branch of the ancient Scottish family of Urquhart of Cromarty. Nisbet says: "A brother of Ochonchar, who slew the bear, and was predecessor of the Lords Forbes, having in keeping the castle of Urquhart, took his surname from the place." This castle stood on the south side of Loch Noss, and was in ancient times a place of great strength and importance, as is apparent from its extensive and magnifi­ cent ruins." In a curious volume published in 1652, "The true pedigree and lineal descent of the most ancient and honorable fam­ ily of Urquhart since the creation of the world, by Sir Thomas Urquhart, Knight of Cromartie, the origin of the family and name is ascribed to Curohartos, that is, 'fortunate and well-beloved,' the familiar name of Esormon, of whom the eccentric author described himself as the 128th de­ scendant. He traces his pedigree, in a direct line, even up to Adam and Eve, and according to him, the meaning of the word Urquhart is the same as that of Adam, namely, 'red earth.' The editor of the edition issued in 1774, says "he has compared the genealogy (compiled by Sir Thomas Urquhart) with the records kept by the Lord Lyon of Scot­ land, which go as far back as the reign of Alexander II, (1198-1249); and from that period finds it strictly true." The family of Urquhart is one of great antiquity. In Hailes' Annals, it is mentioned that Edward I of England, during the time of the competition for the Scottish crown,

15 ordered a list of the sheriffs in Scotland to be made out. Among them appears the name of William Urquhart of Cromartie, heritable sheriff of the county. He married a daughter of Hugh, Earl of Ross, and his son, Adam, ob­ tained charters of various lands. A descendant of his, Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie who lived in the 16th century, was father of eleven daughters and twenty-five sons. Seven of the latter fell at the battle of Pinkie, in 1547, and from another derived the Urquharts of Newhall, Monteagle, Kinbeachie, and Braelangwell.

Collection: Captain Michael Bruce Pollard-Urquhart, of Craigs- ton Castle, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, and Castle Pol­ lard, County Westmeath, a descendant of the above.

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PORTRAIT OF JANE ANN CATHERINE FRASER, OF REELIG

Canvas, 25 x 30 Painted in 1816, when she was 19 years of age.

Daughter of Edward Fraser, born 1797, married in 1816, and died 18 80.

Exhibited: Edinburgh, Loan Exhibition, 1909, number 150. Glasgow Exhibition, 1902, number 97. Reproduced: "Raeburn," by Sir Walter Armstrong, facing page 88; and catalogued there on page 102. "Masterpieces of Raeburn," page 37. "Raeburn," by Greig, page 8; and catalogued there on page 46. "Raeburn," by Clouston, page 12. Collections: Affleck Fraser, of Reelig. William Beattie. Maurice Kann, Paris.

17 i3 ROBERT BROWN, OF NEWHALL

Canvas, 25 x 30

This picture was engraved by W. G. Lizars.

Catalogued: "Sir Henry Raeburn," by Sir Walter Armstrong, 1901, page 97. "Raeburn," by James Greig, London, 1911, page 39. Collection: H. Brown.

18 H PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM LORD ROBERTSON

Canvas, 39j4 x **9*/ Painted about 1805

Painted in the wig and crimson robes of a Lord of Session. Written on the back of the canvas are the words: "Taken Hf Length July 65 (?05)", and on the strainer "Lord Robertson, by Raeburn." William, eldest son of William Robertson the historian, a descendant of the Robertsons of Struan in Pertshire, and his wife, Mary Nisbet, was born in 1754. He was a mem­ ber of the Speculative Society, Edinburgh, from 1770 to 1779, to which he contributed essays; advocate, January 21, 1775; procurator of the Church of Scotland, 1779; took his seat on the Scottish bench as Lord Robertson, November 14, 1805, and resigned in 1826. He was one of the sena­ tors of the College of Justice. He died November 20, 1835.

Collection: Dr. S. D. Robertson MacDonald Mac Vicar, of In- vermoidart, Argyll. (David, the youngest son of William Robertson, married in 1799, Margaret, daughter of Colonel Donald MacDonald, governor of Tobago, and heiress of Kinloch-Moidart, and assumed the name of MacDonald).

iy 15 SIR ANDREW CATHCART, OF CARLETON, 4TH BARONET

Canvas, 25 x 30 Painted about 1B90 He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, and died 1828, in the eighty-seventh year of his age.

20 i6 MRS. CAMPBELL

Canvas, 27^ x 35%

Catalogued: "Raeburn," by Sir Walter Armstrong, 1901, page 98. From the Campbell Collection.

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