The Family of Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Baronet (1741–1787), ca. 1785, Watercolor, Sheet: 13 × 23 1/8 in. (33 × 58.8 cm), Drawings, David Allan (British, Alloa, Scotland 1744–1796 Edinburgh), Allan used watercolor and graphite to make this detailed study of a Scottish family in preparation for a large portrait in oil. Sir James Hunter Blair, his wife, and nine of their twelve children stroll through a landscape near Portpatrick in western Scotland, with Dunskey House, Wigtownshire, an estate gained through his wife’s inheritance, prominent in the background
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Family, Sir James Hunter Blair, 1st Baronet, 1741–1787, ca, 1785, Watercolor, Sheet, 13, 23 1/8, 33, 58.8 cm, Drawings, David Allan, British, Alloa, Scotland, 1744–1796, Edinburgh, Allan, watercolor, graphite, detailed study, Scottish family, preparation, large portrait, oil, Hunter, Blair, wife, nine, twelve children, stroll, landscape, Portpatrick, western Scotland, Dunskey House, Wigtownshire, estate gained, inheritance, prominent, background
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