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Skating Minister: Another piece in artistic jigsaw
Two French names in the records of the Canongate Kirk, dating from the late 1790s, may prove to be another clue to finding the real artist behind one of Scotland's most famous paintings.Three years ago, The Herald revealed that one of the nation's most iconic paintings, The Rev Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, otherwise known as the Skating Minister, may not have been painted by the great Scottish portrait painter Sir Henry Raeburn after all, and instead could be the work of a French emigre court painter, Henri-Pierre Danloux.
Full story at The Herald.
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