Christina Lamont Drummond, Mrs Campbell of Ballimore (1734 - 1810)
About this artwork
Christina or Christian Drummond married around 1760, possibly as her second husband, Colonel Dougald Campbell of Ballimore, Member of Parliament for Argyll in succession to his uncle Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochnell. As an army officer on half-pay, Dougald Campbell owed his brief political career to the patronage of the Duke of Argyll. Widowed in 1764, Christina Campbell is thought to have sat to Raeburn in her sixties and so just prior to his move to a new and larger studio at 16 (now 32) York Place, Edinburgh.
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artist:Sir Henry Raeburn (1756 - 1823) Scottish
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title:Christina Lamont Drummond, Mrs Campbell of Ballimore (1734 - 1810)
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date created:About 1795
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:122.60 x 97.80 cm; Framed: 146.50 x 122.00 x 9.00 cm
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credit line:Bequest of Lady Riddell 1897
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accession number:NG 837
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Sir Henry Raeburn
Sir Henry Raeburn
Originally apprenticed to a goldsmith, Henry Raeburn showed enormous artistic talent as a young man. In 1784 he moved to London where he met the important portrait painter Joshua Reynolds. He spent some time in Italy but returned to Edinburgh in 1787 where he began painting portraits of the rich,...