Patronage and ‘the general taste for Portrait’: David Allan and the Erskine of Torrie Portrait

18 May, 2020 By Allan Kennedy With Comments are off for this post

  In this guest post, Dr Nel Whiting takes a look at the role of gender in shaping the portraiture of David Allan (1744-96), specifically in his family portrait of the Erskines of Torrie. Follow Nel on Twitter at @nel_whiting   Historical portraits are more than likenesses of people from the past; they are artful

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