Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823)Portrait of the Reverend James Lindsay of Pinkieburn(1711-1796)

Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823)
Portrait of the Reverend James Lindsay of Pinkieburn
(1711-1796), three-quarter length, seated
Oil on canvas
91 x 71cm; 36 x 28in
Thought to have been painted c.1787

Provenance:
Ref. W. Lindsay Alexander, D D
Christie's 1914
Wallis
The Ehrich Gallery, New York, 1919
Mrs John Washburn
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Literature:
Listed in Life and Works of Sir Henry Raeburn, by James Greig,p.51 (London Connoisseur, 1911)
Lindsay was licensed by the Presbytery of Edinburgh in 1732
and employed as tutor at Thirlstane Castle, Lauder. In 1736 he
was ordained at Lauder church. In 1746 he was transferred to
Dunborney and in 1750 to Lochwarben, moving to minister of
Kirkliston, Linlithgowshire in 1765.