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Pencil portrait of Walter Scott, from life, unsigned, by Robert Scott-Moncrieff, 9 x 8.1cm, with very worn inscription on reverse of frame, but still legible: 'Robert Scott-Moncrieff, born 1793, decd. 18[69], father of Canon William Scott-Moncrieff, also of Fossaway, died in 1901; father of Susan Mary, afterwards, Mrs Herbert L[unn]; her daughter, Constance Lunn, afterwards Mrs Colin Scott-Moncrieff. Pencil portrait of Sir Walter Scott from life, by Robert Scott-Moncrieff of Fossaway. Given by Robert Scott-Moncrieff's daughter. to George Scott-Moncrieff'; with a 4pp typescript essay 'An unknown portrait of Scott' by George Scott-Moncrieff. Robert Scott-Moncrieff, 1793-1869, was an accomplished amateur artist who was called to the Scottish Bar in 1818. His career as an advocate was not particularly distinguished, and he accepted, in 1828, the appointment of Chamberlain to the Duke of Buccleuch. During his early years at the Bar, between 1816 and 1820, Robert amused himself and his friends by drawing his fellow-advocates and the Judges of the circuit. As George Scott-Moncrieff notes in the accompanying essay, 'These drawings had sometimes an edge of caricature to them, but were often serious likenesses. They were highly praised by no less an authority than Sir Henry Raeburn himself'. During his lifetime Robert refused to have any of his drawings published, but a collection of them appeared in book form in 1871 under the title The Scottish Bar Fifty Years Ago. Sketches of Scott and his Contemporaries. The volume contained another drawing made of Walter Scott by Robert Scott-Moncrieff, in pen and wash, which George Scott-Moncrieff notes 'now hangs in the National Library [of Scotland]'; the NLS today has no knowledge of it. George Scott-Moncrieff adds 'there was a second drawing he [Robert] made, in pencil, which has never before been reproduced. It is, I think, the better likeness of the two. Neither drawing is unduly flattering: they are candid portraits made when Scott was still under fifty, still Clerk of Session, and still the Great Unknown.' This delightful portrait of Scott was first made public in the Scott Bicentenary Issue of Scotland's Magazine, in June 1971, along with George Scott-Moncrieff's enlightening essay. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 95422
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