Search instructions
View alphabetical lists of all artists who are either Scottish or whose works are associated with Scotland currently featured on the site.
Select the initial of the artist's name that you are looking for. Scroll down the list until you find the name, and select it for more information about the artist and his or her work.
Search Tip
Artists are organised by their most commonly-used names. This is usually but not always their surname.
Search results
- Alfred, Count D'Orsay
- John Galt, 1779 - 1839. Novelist
- PG 1823
- Scottish Art
Alfred, Count D'Orsay (French, 1801 - 1852)
Count D'Orsay was a fashionable dandy who was also a talented amateur artist. Born in Paris, the son of one of Bonaparte's generals, the famously handsome D'Orsay travelled around Europe with the Blessingtons, variously attached to Lord Blessington, Blessington's daughter, to whom he was briefly married, and Lady Blessington. After Lord Blessington died in 1829, D'Orsay and Lady Blessington established a fashionable artistic and literary circle in London. He made portrait drawings, oils and busts of his society friends. Eventually the money ran out and D' Orsay left for France, dying in Dieppe of a spinal infection.
