Eight Secretaries of State for Scotland: Lord Younger of Leckie; Sir Malcolm Rifkind; Bruce Millan; Lord Lang of Monkton; Sir Michael Forsyth;...
About this artwork
The room seen here was furnished to be a library and a study when Bute House in Edinburgh's Charlotte Square became the residence of the Secretary of State for Scotland in 1970. The seven men depicted in this watercolour were all Secretaries of State for Scotland in the thirty year period from 1979. Lord Ross died well before this group portrait was painted, but he was included at the suggestion of the other sitters. He appears in a photograph on the mantelpiece. Bute House is now home to the First Minister.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Harry More Gordon (1928 - 2015) English
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title:Eight Secretaries of State for Scotland: Lord Younger of Leckie; Sir Malcolm Rifkind; Bruce Millan; Lord Lang of Monkton; Sir Michael Forsyth; Lord Campbell of Croy; Donald Dewar; Lord Ross of Marnock, 1911 - 1988
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date created:1999
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materials:Watercolour on two pieces of paper
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measurements:52.50 x 147.20 cm (framed: 66.00 x 163.50 x 2.00 cm)
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credit line:Commissioned 1999
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accession number:PG 3153
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Harry More Gordon
Harry More Gordon
A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, Harry More Gordon did not take up portraiture until the late 1960s. During the 1950s, More Gordon worked as an art editor and graphic artist on glossy London magazines. He returned to Edinburgh and taught illustration at the College of Art for twenty-five...