Mariners pay pensions bill with sale of paintings
Published February 21st, 2006
LITTLE-KNOWN maritime portraits by famous Edinburgh artist Sir Henry Raeburn have been saved for the nation after being bought by Historic Scotland.
The paintings were bought for a “significant” but undisclosed sum from the Incorporation of Masters and Mariners, based in Trinity House, the Kirkgate, Leith.
Of the seven paintings, the most significant is of Napoleonic war hero Admiral Adam Duncan, who was a mentor to Lord Nelson.
The Incorporation commissioned Raeburn to paint the portrait in 1798 and the artist depicted the hero with his hand resting on documents which bear the words “Trinity House of Leith”.
Three other Raeburn portraits are included in the collection and commemorate former Trinity House masters John Hay and George Smith and prominent member Peter Wood.
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