Produced by Al Haines

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MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR EDITED BY -- T. LEMAN HARE

RAEBURN

1756-1823

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PLATE I.--LORD NEWTON (Frontispiece).

(National Gallery of Scotland.)

This chef-d'oeuvre, which dates from about 1807, represents one of the most celebrated characters who ever sat upon the bench of the Court of Session. Famous in his day for "law, paunch, whist, claret, and worth," the exploits of Charles Hay, "The Mighty," as he was called, have become traditions of the Parliament House. (See p. 79.)

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RAEBURN

BY JAMES L. CAW

ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

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LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK

NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

1909

CONTENTS

Introduction Chapter I. " II. " III. " IV. " V. " VI.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate

I. Lord Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece (National Gallery of Scotland)

II. Children of Mr and the Hon. Mrs Paterson of Castle Huntly (In the possession of Chas. J. G. Paterson, Esq.)

III. Mrs Lauzun (National Gallery, London)

IV. Mrs Campbell of Balliemore (National Gallery of Scotland)

V. Professor Robison (University of Edinburgh)

VI. John Tait of Harvieston and his Grandson (In the possession of Mrs Pitman)

VII. Miss de Vismes (In the possession of the Earl of Mansfield)

VIII. Mrs Scott Moncrieff (National Gallery of Scotland)

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: Raeburn by Sir J. L. Caw
• 2: Illustration Raeburn When in 1810
• 3: Scotland has shown exceptional activity in the arts
• 4: A link between that of Jamesone and that of Raeburn
• 5: Were amongst his early sitters
• 6: The year in which Raeburn left Heriot's
• 7: And Martin had been his favourite pupil
• 8: Raeburn no doubt derived much instruction as to design
• 9: Leslie bought Deanhaugh in 1777
• 10: His usefulness to Raeburn was chiefly that of a cicerone
• 11: That Raeburn himself took marine insurance risks
• 12: Raeburn was presented to George IV
• 13: Died on the 6th December Mr William Raeburn
• 14: The greatest master of concentrated pictorial effect
• 15: Many of whose portraits have a conventional setting
• 16: Raw sienna but sometimes yellow ochre instead
• 17: With typical examples painted between 1787 and 1795
• 18: Was meretricious in many respects
• 19: Raeburn was at his best where character