. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. Constantly RAEBURN. 320 RAIT. employed as a portrait painter, lie devoted nopart of his attention either to historical or land-scape painting. He was elected a member of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh, of the Imperial Aca-demy of Florence, and of the New York andSouth Carolina Academies. On November 2,1812, or, as stated by some, in 1814, the RoyalAcademy of London elected him an associate, and,on February 10, 1815, he was chosen an acade-mician. In 1822, when George IV. v
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. Constantly RAEBURN. 320 RAIT. employed as a portrait painter, lie devoted nopart of his attention either to historical or land-scape painting. He was elected a member of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh, of the Imperial Aca-demy of Florence, and of the New York andSouth Carolina Academies. On November 2,1812, or, as stated by some, in 1814, the RoyalAcademy of London elected him an associate, and,on February 10, 1815, he was chosen an acade-mician. In 1822, when George IV. visited Edinburgh,his majesty, as a compliment to the fine arts inScotland, conferred the honour of knighthood onMr. Raeburn, a dignity which was wholly unex-pected on his part. A few weeks thereafter hisbrother artists, as a mark of their respect, invitedhim to a public dinner. Soon after, he was nomi-nated portrait painter to his majesty for Scotland,an appointment which, however, was not an-nounced to him till the very day when he wasseized with the illness which terminated in hisdeath. His portrait is subjoined •. The last pictures on which he was engagedwere two portraits of Sir Walter Scott, one forhimself, and the other for Lord Montague. Hedied, after a short illness, arising from general decay, July 8, 1823. His widow survived himten years. He had two sons, Peter, who died atnineteen, and Henry, who with his wife and fa-mily, lived under the same roof with his father,and to whose children he left the bulk of his for-tune, consisting of houses and ground-rents on hisproperty at St. Bernards, Stockbridge, which, inhis latter years, he had occupied his leisure inplanning out into elegant villas and streets, andnow forms part of one of the suburbs of Edinburgh. Rait, or Rate, a surname, originally Rket, supposed tohave been derived from a German, who came to Scotland inthe reign of Malcolm the Maiden, from the country of Rhe-tia, whence the name. He is said to have got fr
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