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- Sir John Watson Gordon
- Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, 1766 - 1845. Songwriter (With her son William Murray Nairne, later 6th Lord Nairne, 1808 - 1837)
- PG 610
- On Display
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Watson Gordon
- Carolina Oliphant, Baroness Nairne, 1766 - 1845. Songwriter
- about 1818
- PG 1125
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Watson Gordon
- Patrick Fraser Tytler, 1791 - 1849. Historian
- PG 187
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Watson Gordon
- Andrew Duncan, 1744 - 1828. President of the Royal Medical Society and of the Royal College of Physicians
- Painted 1825
- PGL 258
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Watson Gordon
- Return from a Foray
- Dated 1827
- NG 2177
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Watson Gordon
- James Hogg, 1770 - 1835. Poet; 'The Ettrick Shepherd'
- 1830
- PG 2718
- On Display
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Watson Gordon
- John Taylor, fl. 1807 - 1825
- about 1830
- PGL 342
- On Display
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Watson Gordon
- Thomas Bruce, 1785 - 1850. Depute Clerk of Session and friend of Sir Walter Scott
- PG 1599
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Watson Gordon
- Rev. Thomas Chalmers, 1780 - 1847. Preacher and social reformer
- about 1838
- PG 1094
- Scottish Art
- Sir John Watson Gordon
- Thomas de Quincey, 1785 - 1859. Author and essayist
- Dated 1846
- PG 1116
- Scottish Art
Sir John Watson Gordon (Scottish, 1788 - 1864)
John Watson Gordon was training to become an army engineer when, encouraged by his uncle, the painter, George Watson, and Raeburn, who was a family friend, he decided to become an artist. His first works were subject pictures but, after Raeburn's death in 1823, he established himself as the leading portrait painter in Scotland. His style was at first closely based on Raeburn but was later more influenced by his admiration for Velázquez. In 1850 he was elected President of the Royal Scottish Academy, appointed Queen's Limner for Scotland and knighted.
