by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Portraits & Pictures
Circle of Allan Ramsay Oil on canvas, 28 x 24ins. Bust length oval within rectangular canvas, wearing breastplate. Formerly in the collection of The Earl of Haddington. During his life time on Christmas day 1763, Leslie House was destroyed by fire. Adverse weather...
by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Portraits & Pictures
By John Baptiste de Medina, signed and dated 1694. Oil on canvas 48 x 37ins. Three quarter length wearing armour. Inherited as 9th Earl on the death of his mother 1700. Obtained new patent 1702 confirming the separation of the Rothes and Haddington titles and estates....
by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Portraits & Pictures
Attributed to Richard Cosway Pastel on paper. 22 x 17ins. White dress, blue drape. Charlotte Julia was the daughter of Col. Campbell of Dunoon, she married 1798, George, 13th Earl of Rothes as his second wife, they had 3 daughters. After the death of her husband she...
by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Portraits & Pictures
By Robert Dighton, signed Dighton/1808 Pencil and watercolour on paper, 18 x 15 ins. White uniform, red collar and cuffs, black hat with red plume. George, only surviving son of Jane Elizabeth, 12th Countess and her first husband, George Raymond Evelyn, succeeded as...
by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Portraits & Pictures
By Andrew Gamsley, 1944 Oil on canvas Situated near Rothes in the Spey valley. Originally Kininvie House gave its name to a branch of the Balquhain Leslies, more recently owned and occupied (1936-45) by The Hon. J.W. Leslie, 2nd son of 19th Earl of Rothes. Renovated...
by Alex Leslie | May 8, 2017 | Portraits & Pictures
By James Gunn, signed. Oil on canvas 50 X 40 ins. Black dress, green chair, dull purple brocade curtain behind. Exhibited:Royal Academy 1936. National Gallery of Scotland ‘The Art of Jewellry in Scotland.’ 1991. Because the portrait was at this exhibition...
