Allan Ramsay A Scottish Portrait-Painter
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Allan Ramsay (1713 – 1784) was a prominent Scottish portrait-painter.

Allan Ramsay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the eldest son of Allan Ramsay, poet and author of The Gentle Shepherd. From the age of twenty he studied in London under the Swedish painter Hans Hysing, and at the St. Martin’s Lane Academy; leaving in 1736 for Rome and Naples, where he worked for three years under Francesco Solimena and Imperiali (Francesco Fernandi).

On his return in 1738 to the British Isles, he first settled in Edinburgh, attracting attention by his head of Duncan Forbes of Culloden and his full-length portrait of the Duke of Argyll, later used on Royal Bank of Scotland banknotes. He later moved to London, where he was employed by the Duke of Bridgewater.

Ramsay has paintings in the collection of a few British institutions including the National Gallery in London, Sheffield, Derby Art Gallery (attributed), Glasgow Museum and Newstead Abbey.

Allan Ramsay selected works

The lost portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, painted in Edinburgh in 1745
Queen Charlotte as painted by Allan Ramsay in 1762
Portrait of David Hume, 1754
Portrait of David Hume, 1766
Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck
Lady in a Pink Silk Dress
John Burgoyne, painted in Rome in 1758
Sir John Inglis