John Crerar entered the service of the Duke of Atholl in 1776, and Landseer met him at Blair Atholl during his first visit to Scotland in 1824.

Crerar was a skilled gamekeeper as well as an accomplished musician and composer.

Provenance

C.Porte; Collin Young to 1874; anon. sale, Sotheby's at Gleneagles, August 1978.


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