The Guardian reports on the recent discovery of a portrait by Scottish artist Allan Ramsay of the Young Pretender, Prince Charles Edward Stuart. The portrait was painted in Edinburgh in 1745, the year of the unsuccessful Jacobite rebellion that was ruthlessly crushed the following year at the Battle of Culloden. The discovery was made by Bendor Grosvenor, a director of the Philip Mould Gallery in London and well known from the BBC’s Fake or Fortune? and from his own blog Art History News. Continue reading
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