Lord Drunmore, Sir Hew Dalrymple

Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784)

Scottish National Portrait Gallery

1754

This portrait is one of the finest Ramsay ever painted. Its exquisite measure of values presages the classical developments in painting towards the end of the century in a quite remarkable way. It is therefore not only a landmark in Scottish painting, but in European art. Lord Drunmore was a member of that extraordinary dynasty of Scottish lawyers, the Dalrymples. He himself was a seated judge and in 1745 became a Lord Justiciary. According to his fellow-judge, Lord Woodhouselee, he was 'an acute and sound lawyer and possessed of a ready, distinct and forcible, though not a polished elocution'. This work was acquired with assistance from the Wolfson Foundation.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 127 x 102 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £50000 ( Total: £350,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1990
• Vendor: Madame Broun Lindsay

Provenance

Elizabeth Broun; George Broun of Colstoun; Christian, Duchess of Dalhousie; 10th Earl & 1st Marquise of Dalhousie; Lady Edith Ferguson; Col. J.G.A.Baird; Edith Christian Broun; Captain Colin Broun.

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