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Duncan MacGregor (b.1814) dated

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A watercolour portrait of Duncan MacGregor (b. 1814), who wears a kilt and hose of Rob Roy tartan and the MacGregor crest and badge. Loch Earn Head and Stuck-a-Shron from Glen Ogle, Perthshire are seen in background. Signed and dated.
After painting Queen Victoria's three younger sons in the early 1860s, Kenneth MacLeay, a miniature and watercolour portrait painter, was commissioned to produce further portraits of the Queen's favourite retainers. From this developed a more significant commission, and indeed the most important of the artist's career: a series of portraits of representatives of the more important Highland clans, with a view to publication. This group of portraits of retainers and clansmen was executed during the second half of the 1860s and exhibited by John Mitchell, Old Bond Street, in 1869. They were then reproduced in chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks (London's premier lithographer) as illustrations to the two-volume 'The Highlanders of Scotland'.
Descriptive Medium: 'Pencil and watercolour', 'watercolour painting'