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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_-_(MeisterDrucke-901195).jpg "George Paterson of Castle Huntly 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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.jpg "Portrait of Lieut-Colonel Morrison of the 7th Dragoon Guards, Half Length, in Uniform by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "The Original of Weir of Hermiston 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 "Innocence, portrait of Nancy Graham by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Sir Alexander Don, Seated Half Length, in a Green Coat with His Daughter, Elizabeth, Leaning on His Shoulder by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Thomas Bissland, Half Length, Wearing a Black Coat and White Stock by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Miss Forbes, c1795-1800, 1924 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Lady, traditionally identified as Dame Margaret Anne Taylor by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "James Watt, 1815 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 "Portrait of Isabella Campbell by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "General Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira later 1st Marquess of Hastings by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mary, Lady Pitmille by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Robert Allan of Kirkliston, 1800 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Alexander Maconochie of Meadowbank, 1777-1861 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Dr. James Hutton, Seated Three-Quarter Length in a Brown Jacket and Breeches and White Stock, a Pile of Geological Specimens on the Table Beside Him 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 "John Johnstone, Betty Johnstone, and Miss Wedderburn by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Adam Rolland of Gask II by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Mr. and Mrs. Robert Campbell of Kailzie by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Eliza Pringle, Mrs Archibald Tod of Drygrange by Henry Raeburn")
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_of_Drums_and_Millbank_Renfrewshire_Aged_18_(oil_on_-_(MeisterDrucke-1118310).jpg "Thomas King Esq. (c.1772-1802), of Drums and Millbank, Renfrewshire, Aged 18 by Henry Raeburn")
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.jpg "Portrait of Lady Pitmillie by Henry Raeburn")
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