Tag: earl-of-bute
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Repeat, Repeat, Repeat Visits to Scotland’s National Portrait Gallery
Most people have LIVING friends, with skin and bones and blood in their veins. (Pffff, weird!) I’ve got historical friends, people who’ve lived and died, and with whom I spend time…in my head. Their portraits are in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, and I chat with them. Click. Read.
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Sketching an 18th Century Man’s Leg
Drawing a gentleman’s leg is one of the many challenges to illustrating scenes from the Eighteenth century. And it’s something to get right – a ‘good leg’ was something for men to show off. The Third Earl of Bute (1713-1792), British Prime Minister from 1762-63, was known for having legs…