Attributed to Francis Lindo fl.1755-1765

James Veitch, Lord Elliock (1712-1793), Dumfriesshire, to whom probably given by Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensbury, father of the sitter, and friend of Lord Elliock;
Miss Alice Graham-Stirling, daughter of Thomas James Graham-Stirling of Strowan (1811-1896) and his wife, Mary, nee Somervell;
Thence by descent to David Somervell, by whose executors sold, Holly House Sale, Christie's, 2nd October 2002, lot 1

The sitter was the eldest son of Charles, 3rd Duke of Queensberry and his wife, Catherine Hyde.  On 24th July 1754 he was married to Elizabeth Hope, daughter of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun. A similar portrait hangs at Douglas Castle.  He died only three months later.

The present portrait belonged to James Veitch, an influential judge and a popular member of Edinburgh legal circles.  He had close connections with the 3rd Duke of Queensberry, who in 1755 brought him in as an M.P. for Dumfriesshire, which was a constituency dominated by the Queensberry family.