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- Sir John Baptiste de Medina
- David Colyear, 2nd Baronet and 1st Earl of Portmore, 1657 - 1730
- about 1680 - 1710
- PG 2842
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Baptiste de Medina
- James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, 1662 - 1711. Statesman
- about 1685
- PG 2045
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Baptiste de Medina
- Rev. Henry Erskine, 1624 - 1696. Covenanting minister
- PG 1240
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Baptiste de Medina
- David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven, 1660 - 1728. Statesman and soldier
- 1691
- PG 1528
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Baptiste de Medina
- George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville, 1636 - 1707. Statesman
- 1691
- PG 1532
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Baptiste de Medina
- The Family of John Hay, 1st Marquess Tweeddale, 1626 - 1697. Lord High Chancellor of Scotland
- about 1695
- PG 3155
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Baptiste de Medina
- James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield, 1663 - 1730. Lord Chancellor
- 1695
- PG 1064
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Baptiste de Medina
- Sir John Baptiste de Medina, 1659 - 1710. Portrait painter (Self-portrait)
- about 1698
- PG 1555
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Baptiste de Medina
- James Drummond, 2nd titular Duke of Perth, 1673 - 1720. Jacobite
- about 1700
- PG 1531
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Baptiste de Medina
- Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange, 1679 - 1745. Wife of James Erskine, Lord Grange
- about 1707
- PGL 235
- Scottish Art
Sir John Baptiste de Medina (Scottish, 1659 - 1710)
John Baptiste de Medina was born in Brussels, the son of a Spanish army captain. He trained with the Flemish portrait painter, Francois Duchatel and moved to London to set up a portrait practice in about 1686. Moderately successful, he employed several assistants in his Drury Lane studio. He counted several members of the Scottish aristocracy amongst his clients and in 1694 he was persuaded to visit Edinburgh to paint their wives and families. With virtually no competition in Scotland, Medina decided to settle. With his distinctive, informal baroque manner, he captured a generation of Scottish society and was knighted in 1706 by the last Scottish parliament before the Act of Union.
