Sir Henry Raeburn R.A., P.R.S.A. 1756-1823

Half length, wearing a brown dress and a blue cloak 

With Agnew, London, 1905;
Colonel Walter Brown, Renfrew;
Christie's sale, 13th June 1913, lot 130, bt. Walls for 4,000 gns.;
Barbizon House, 1925;
Sir Joseph Duveen, 1926;
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fisher, Detroit, by 1931

Brighton Art Gallery, 1902;
Agnew, 1905;
French Gallery, Edinburgh, 1909;
French Gallery, London, Pictures by Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., 1911, no. 9;
Detroit Institute of Art, Second Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, January 1926, no. 26;
Sassoon Gallery, London, The Four Georges, 1931, no. 27;
New York, World's Fair, Masterpieces of Art, 1939, no. 293

Sir Walter Armstrong, Sir Henry Raeburn, 1901, p. 103;
Edward Pinnington, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., 1904, p. 232;
James Greig, Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A., 1911, pp. XLCII, 47;
Esther Singleton, Old World Masters in New World Collections, 1929, p. 416;
David Mackie, Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of Sir Henry Raeburn, unpublished PhD. thesis in six volumes, no. 344

The sitter was Margaret, daughter of Francis Gray, 14th Lord Gray, and his wife Mary, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel James Johnstone. She was brought up in Kinfauns Castle, Perthshire, which had belonged to the family of Margaret Blair, her grandmother. On 20th June 1820 she married John Grant (1798-1873) of Kilgraston, elder brother of the artist Sir Francis Grant. Her husband inherited Kilgraston from his father in 1818. She died on 24th April 1822 leaving one daughter, Margaret, who married David Murray, son of David, 3rd Earl of Mansfield.

We are grateful to David Mackie, St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, for his assistance and for dating the portrait to circa 1820, the year of the sitter's marriage.