The Family of Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Baronet (1741–1787), David Allan, ca. 1785

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The Family of Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Baronet (1741–1787), ca. 1785, Watercolor, Sheet: 13 × 23 1/8 in. (33 × cm), Drawings, David Allan (British, Alloa, Scotland 1744–1796 Edinburgh), Allan used watercolor and graphite to make this detailed study of a Scottish family in preparation for a large portrait in oil. Sir James Hunter Blair, his wife, and nine of their twelve children stroll through a landscape near Portpatrick in western Scotland, with Dunskey House, Wigtownshire, an estate gained through his wife’s inheritance, prominent in the background

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Size: 4649px × 2954px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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