Word: pittencrieff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paint miniatures. To his gratification, and to Goldsmith Gilliland's who shared the profits, they sold. His brother thereupon sent him to one David Martin, Edinburgh's leading painter, to copy canvases. When he was 21. Henry Raeburn painted his first portrait, of George Chalmers of Pittencrieff. seated against a conventional curtain with ruins out the window. The chair was badly out of line. When he was 22 he painted Anns Edgar, widow of Count Leslie, and twelve years his senior. They were married within a month...
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