. What pictures to see in America. gh was stricken down he sentfor Sir Joshua and when his untimely end cameit was Reynolds who was at his bedside andReynolds who helped bear his pall. Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) was aScotch Border portrait painter, coming twenty-five years later than Reynolds and Gainsbor-ough. The curious design on his shield of a*rae(roe)-deer drinking from a burn or rivu-let running at its feet, makes it likely that hisfamily tree began on the hill-farm of Raeburn;at least it is quite certain that the early Rae-burns were roving shepherds. Sir Henry wasvery early left an
. What pictures to see in America. gh was stricken down he sentfor Sir Joshua and when his untimely end cameit was Reynolds who was at his bedside andReynolds who helped bear his pall. Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) was aScotch Border portrait painter, coming twenty-five years later than Reynolds and Gainsbor-ough. The curious design on his shield of a*rae(roe)-deer drinking from a burn or rivu-let running at its feet, makes it likely that hisfamily tree began on the hill-farm of Raeburn;at least it is quite certain that the early Rae-burns were roving shepherds. Sir Henry wasvery early left an orphan with no means ofsupport, but it was his good fortune to be putin a hospital a little south of Edinburgh,where he was well trained in the fundamentalsof an education before starting on his art ca-reer. He soon rose to distinction in his life-likeportraits of the Scotch people. This portraitof Mrs. Bailie (Fig. 154) fairly startles uswith its warmth of life. We hesitate to standstaring at her for fear she may suddenly speak,.
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