Mrs Isabella (Burns) Begg, 1771 - 1858. Youngest sister of Robert Burns [a]
About this artwork
Isabella Burns Begg was the youngest sister of the poet, Robert Burns. There was a striking resemblance between the two. Robert Burns died before photography was established but through this vivid portrait of his sister, we get an idea of how he might have looked in old age. Isabella was widowed young and raised nine children single-handed. In later years, she was given a picturesque cottage where she lived almost as a monument to her brother, entertaining hoards of visitors from the United Kingdom, the Continent and America.
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title:Mrs Isabella (Burns) Begg, 1771 - 1858. Youngest sister of Robert Burns [a]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Carbon print
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measurements:22.50 x 17.00 cm
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credit line:Elliot Collection, bequeathed 1950
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accession number:PGP HA 5238
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David Octavius Hill
David Octavius Hill
A painter and a lithographer by training, David Octavius Hill is best remembered for the beauty of the calotypes he and Robert Adamson produced together. Hill was a sociable and kind-hearted man who did much to support the arts in Scotland and between 1830 and 1836 he was the unpaid Secretary of...