© Newhailes
Sir James Dalrymple BT MP
Artist: Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784)
Location: Newhailes
Date: 1740
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 124.5 x 101cm
Grant:
Vendor: Trustees of Sir Mark Dalrymple's Trust
Review number: 4378 (1996)
Provenance:
Painted for the sitter; thence by descent through the Dalrymple family, Newhailes, East Lothian.
Description:
An informal three quarter length portrait of Sir James Dalrymple (1692-1751) in situ in the dining room at Newhailes shortly before James Norie the Elder painted the room in 1739. The sitter was Auditor of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland. Part of a grant for 4 portraits.
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