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Description: | Robert Burns (1759-96) Scotland's National Poet who was born in Alloway Ayrshire was married to a Mauchline girl named Jean Armour (1767-1834), the daughter of a stone-mason. She and Burns were married in 1788 and had 9 children the last child being born on the day of Burns' funeral.
The Skirving portrait done between 1796 and 1798 was itself a copy from the original by Alexander Nasmyth and was considered by many as the finest representation of the poet.
This is a copy, one of twelve such produced by Messrs Henry Dixon & Son London in 1891, of the original in red crayon on grey paper by Archibald Skirving which now hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1796-01-01 - 1798-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Drawing in crayon of Robert Burns by Arc | Go to resource |
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