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Every movement ignites a counter movement. The ideas of the Enlightenment around 1750 sparked such a fierce political hullabaloo (American independence, French Revolution, Napoleon's endless wars) that many contemporaries turned away angrily and fled into "Romanticism". Scotland, too, produced a Romantic painter of distinction, Henry Raeburn, just at that time.
Born in 1856 in Stockbridge on the River Leith, he first learned the craft of a goldsmith's assistant, who discovered and encouraged Raeburn's talent for painting. One of his first portrait models was Ann Edgar, widow of Lord Leslie - a few months later she was Raeburn's wife. The marriage provided Raeburn with the financial means to further his education in Edinburgh and in Italy. Back in Scotland, Raeburn took off. There is hardly a contemporary Scottish personality who has not been portrayed by him over the years - right up to the famous poet Sir Walter Scott in 1822. It was considered a status symbol, so to speak, to be painted by Henry Raeburn. His portraits worked primarily with the play of light and dark - a subject that we Central Europeans automatically associate with Rembrandt. His artist colleagues rather compared Raeburn to Goya... But an unevenly lit background was perfectly normal at a time when neither gas lighting nor electric light bulbs were known. Most portraits were painted in the glow of oil lamps or fireplaces - simply because there were no other light sources.
Raeburn's fame outside of Scotland was and still is rather limited because he became a teacher and founder of the "Scottish School". Although also celebrated by the English art world, Raeburn travelled to London only rarely and for a short time and never moved there. He was and remained a Scot, a man from Edinburgh - and it is this steadfastness that has given Scottish painting a certain independence to this day. As is well known, the inhabitants of Scotland are still first Scots and only then British - and in the decades after the Jacobite uprising and the Battle of Culloden (which dealt the Highland clans the deathblow), even between the Edinburgh of the loyal Lowland Scots and London there was an even greater distance than "only" 800 kilometres...
Raeburn was elected president of the Scottish Artists' Association in 1812; in 1815 he became a member of the Royal Scottish Academy. When King George IV travelled to Scotland in 1822 (as the first British monarch for two centuries), Raeburn was knighted and appointed "Painter to the King in Scotland". Raeburn died in 1828 and is buried on the outer wall of Saint Cuthbert Church in Edinburgh.
Every movement ignites a counter movement. The ideas of the Enlightenment around 1750 sparked such a fierce political hullabaloo (American independence, French Revolution, Napoleon's endless wars) that many contemporaries turned away angrily and fled into "Romanticism". Scotland, too, produced a Romantic painter of distinction, Henry Raeburn, just at that time.
Born in 1856 in Stockbridge on the River Leith, he first learned the craft of a goldsmith's assistant, who discovered and encouraged Raeburn's talent for painting. One of his first portrait models was Ann Edgar, widow of Lord Leslie - a few months later she was Raeburn's wife. The marriage provided Raeburn with the financial means to further his education in Edinburgh and in Italy. Back in Scotland, Raeburn took off. There is hardly a contemporary Scottish personality who has not been portrayed by him over the years - right up to the famous poet Sir Walter Scott in 1822. It was considered a status symbol, so to speak, to be painted by Henry Raeburn. His portraits worked primarily with the play of light and dark - a subject that we Central Europeans automatically associate with Rembrandt. His artist colleagues rather compared Raeburn to Goya... But an unevenly lit background was perfectly normal at a time when neither gas lighting nor electric light bulbs were known. Most portraits were painted in the glow of oil lamps or fireplaces - simply because there were no other light sources.
Raeburn's fame outside of Scotland was and still is rather limited because he became a teacher and founder of the "Scottish School". Although also celebrated by the English art world, Raeburn travelled to London only rarely and for a short time and never moved there. He was and remained a Scot, a man from Edinburgh - and it is this steadfastness that has given Scottish painting a certain independence to this day. As is well known, the inhabitants of Scotland are still first Scots and only then British - and in the decades after the Jacobite uprising and the Battle of Culloden (which dealt the Highland clans the deathblow), even between the Edinburgh of the loyal Lowland Scots and London there was an even greater distance than "only" 800 kilometres...
Raeburn was elected president of the Scottish Artists' Association in 1812; in 1815 he became a member of the Royal Scottish Academy. When King George IV travelled to Scotland in 1822 (as the first British monarch for two centuries), Raeburn was knighted and appointed "Painter to the King in Scotland". Raeburn died in 1828 and is buried on the outer wall of Saint Cuthbert Church in Edinburgh.
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.jpg "Lt. Col. Sir John James Fraser in Hussar Uniform by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Little Girl with Flowers or Innocence, Portrait of Nancy Graham by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Sir Walter Scott and His Dogs by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Mrs. Scott Moncrieff by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Boy with Rabbit by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "The Macnab by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "William Fraser of Reelig 1784-1835, 1801 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "David Anderson by Henry Raeburn")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-97341).jpg "Major James Lee Harvey by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "James Watt, 1815 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Lady Elizabeth Crichton, later Viscountess Mount-Stuart, c.1791 by Henry Raeburn")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-179527).jpg "Joseph Hume by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Miss Eleanor Urquhart by Henry Raeburn")
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_c1810_-_(MeisterDrucke-52693).jpg "Portrait of Henry Mackenzie by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton and 7th Duke of Brandon, Full-Length, in Uniform, with His Arabian Charger, in a Landscape by Henry Raeburn")
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_1815_-_(MeisterDrucke-377213).jpg "Thomas Robert Hay, Eleventh Earl of Kinnoull by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "The Marchioness of Northampton, Playing a Harp by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet of Ulbster by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Lady Colville by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "The Paterson Children by Henry Raeburn")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1457905).jpg "Sir George Sinclair as a Boy by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "William Scott-Elliot of Arkleton by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of an elderly man by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Double Portrait of Mrs. Alexander Allan with Her Granddaughter, Matilda by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Mrs Irvine J. Boswell by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of William Glendonwyn of Glendonwyn and Sarton, c.1795-1800 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Major General Andrew Hay by Henry Raeburn")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-565483).jpg "Portrait of Sir Walter Scott by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Thomas Mure of Warriston, c.1785 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Dr. Nathaniel Spens by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Sir Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, Seventh Baronet by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Miss Eleanor Urquhart by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Hugh Hope by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Mrs. William Urquhart, c. 1813-15, 1924 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Robert Brown of Newhall, 1792 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Miss Elizabeth Haig by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Niel Gow, 1727 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Robert Allan of Kirkliston, 1800 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "William Robertson, Lord Robertson by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Spencer, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, 1821 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Captain Patrick Miller by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Jane, Duchess of Gordon by Henry Raeburn")
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 c1819 - (MeisterDrucke-156078).jpg "Lieutenant John James Douglas, c.1819 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Jean Pitcairn by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "George Harley Drummond 1783-1855, ca. 1808-9 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "William Blair by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Miss Forbes, c1795-1800, 1924 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Mrs. Macdowall by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Lieutenant General William Stuart, Half-Length, in Uniform by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Mrs. Scott Moncrieff by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Mrs. Charles Gordon by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of William Fairlie of Fairlie by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Thomas Robert, Eleventh Earl of Kinnoull by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Mrs Lumsden by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Detail of Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Colonel Alastair Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry (1771) by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Miss De Vismes, c1795 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Maria, Countess of Kintore by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Sir Walter Scott by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of William Fraser of Reelig by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Col. William Swinton by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Alexander Maconochie of Meadowbank, 1777-1861 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of William Keith-Falconer, 6th Earl Kintore by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Sir Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Sir David Brewster by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Mrs Farquarson of Finzean by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "The Binning Children by Henry Raeburn")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-901196).jpg "Mrs Moir of Leckie by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "James Hutton, 1726 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Henry Dundas, engraved by S. Freeman, from")
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.jpg "Sir David Baird Bart GCB, KC Colonel of the 24th Regiment by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Lieut-Colonel Morrison of the 7th Dragoon Guards, Half Length, in Uniform by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Gentleman by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Isabella Campbell by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Harriet Scott of Harden, 1795 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Viscount Melville by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "The MacNab by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Eleanor Margaret Gibson-Carmichael by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Robert Hodshon Cay by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mary, Lady Pitmille by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Lady Delves Broughton by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Lieutenant Andrew Agnew, c.1795 by Henry Raeburn")
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 engraved by C Turner 1843 (mezzotint) - (MeisterDrucke-59983).jpg "Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey engraved by C. Turner, 1843 by Henry Raeburn")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1128089).jpg "Major James Lee Harvey, c.1820 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Lieutenant General Duncan Campbell by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Joseph Black by Henry Raeburn")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-901195).jpg "George Paterson of Castle Huntly by Henry Raeburn")
_-_(MeisterDrucke-261784).jpg "Helen Boyle, Mrs. Thomas Mure (d.1805) by Henry Raeburn")
.jpg "William Forsyth 1749-1814, ca. 1800 by Henry Raeburn")
.jpg "Boy and Rabbit by Henry Raeburn")