by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Portraits & Pictures
By John Baptiste de Medina Oil on canvas 49 x 40 ins. Blue dress, red drape, sunset background. Inscribed: ‘Margaret/Countess of Rothes, Eldest/Daughter + heir of John, Duke of Rothes/Married to Chas, 5th Earl of Haddington.’ Margaret was the daughter of...
by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Portraits & Pictures
By John Baptiste de Medina and his studio Oil on canvas 49 x 40 ins. Blue dress, pink drape and blue sky. Possibly old Leslie House with Italian garden in the background. Inscribed: ‘Lady Jean Hay/2nd daughter of John 2nd Marqs. of Tweedale/Married to John, 8th...
by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Portraits & Pictures
By Edward Halliday, signed and dated 1947. Oil on canvas 21 x 26 ins. Lady Jean Mckenzie, Lady Eve Mackworth-Young and Lord Leslie painted by the River Wylye.
by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Furniture
Upholstered armchair from Sotheby’s sale, Tyningham 1987. Believed to have been made by Charles ll’s court chairmaker, probably for the Duke of Rothes, and to have been at Tyningham since that time.
by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Prints & Engravings
The Duke of Rothes died at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, 1681. His body was transported back to Leslie House, Fife, for internment in the family vault. The order of precedence in the procession for the many civil and military bodies wishing to be represented was laid...
