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Description: | Viscount Stair was the President of the Court of Session. An engraving by John Horsburgh from the painting of Viscount Stair, James Dalrymple, by Sir John de Medina
"John de Medina (1659-1710) was born in Brussels and established himself in Edinburgh in 1693, quickly becoming Scotland's leading portrait painter. His practice flourished and he remained in Scotland for the rest of his life. He was knighted in 1707 and left portraits of a large proportion of the Scottish nobility. The engraver is likely John Horsburgh (1791-1869) an Edinburgh artist who studied at the Trustees Academy and produced vignettes for the Waverley Novels. James Dalrymple, first Viscount Stair was the original systematiser of Scots Law in 1681. He gave Scots Law its ethical basis and a capacity to respond to the evolution of the society it served."
Author: Morrison,John Date: 2002 Purpose: HA3541 | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1825 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Creator: | Horsburgh, J (engraver) and Medina, John Sir (painter) | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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