Tag: Scotland

Millicent Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland

(1867–1955) Millicent Fanny Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland née Lady Millicent Fanny St. Clair-Erskine Millicent in Art: Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Portrait of Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland 1904 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid   Born October 20 1867 Dysart House (Scotland) Died August 20…

V. Gordon Childe

(1892–1957) Vere Gordon Childe     Born April 14 1892 Sydney (Australia) Died October 19 1957 Blackheath (Australia) Cause of death Suicide Occupation Archaeologist Librarian Occupation Philologist Writer

Madonna col Bambino e santi (c.1505)

Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Madonna col Bambino e santi (The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome, Peter, Francis and an Unidentified Female Saint) c.1505 Oil on canvas, transferred from panel, 80.50 x 102.50 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Sir Patrick Spens (1856)

Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) Sir Patrick Spens 1856 Watercolour on paper, 24.1 x 22.9 cm Tate Britain, London This picture is based on an ancient Scottish ballad. The King of Scotland asks Sir Patrick Spens, the best sailor in the land, to…

Sir Walter Scott

(1771–1832) Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot Works: • Guy Mannering (English) • Ivanhoe (English) • Kenilworth (English) • Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (English) • Marmion (English) • Old Mortality (English) • Quentin Durward (English) • Rob Roy…

Robert Louis Stevenson

(1850–1894) Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson Works: • Aarresaari (Finnish) • A Child’s Garden of Verses (English) • A Christmas Sermon (English) • A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (English) • A Lowden Sabbath Morn (English) •…

Elizabeth II (United Kingdom)

(1926–2022) Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor Queen of the United Kingdom (1952–2022) Queen Elizabeth in Film: The Queen 2006 Director: Stephen Frears Starring: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen   Born April 21 1926 17 Bruton Street, Mayfair, London (England) Died September 8 2022 Balmoral Castle (Scotland)