Charles Henry Augustus Lutyens

Probably Lucy, Countess of Home (died 1877);
Thence by descent to James Home, whom gave the picture to his kinsman Lord Charles Thomas Scott in 1879;
Thence by descent to Sir David Scott in 1911

STRUCTURE The canvas has been laid on to board - the board is in stable condition. PAINT SURFACE Some scattered patches of old craquelure stabilised by laying onto board. Minor chips to the paint on the upper right corner and further chips along the upper right edge. ULTRAVIOLET UV light reveals minor spots of retouching to the upper right quadrant. FRAME Held in a decorative gilded composite frame; under glass
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The ruined keep and sections of the gatehouse and perimeter wall of Newark Castle stand in the grounds of the Duke of Buccleuch's Scottish seat, Bowhill a few miles west of Selkirk. The present picture shows the sandstone towerhouse looming out of the wooded hillside with the river in the foreground.

Newark Castle was granted to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Douglas around 1423 and building work continued until about 1475. After the fall of the Douglases the castle was held by the crown, and in 1473 it was given to the wife of James III. In 1547 the English army besieged Newark and a year later it was almost completely destroyed by fire. A bloody battle took place at Newark during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in 1645, when a hundred royalist followers were shot after the Battle of Philiphaugh. In the seventeenth century Anna, Duchess of Monmouth and Buccleuch made alterations to the castle.