Charles Erskine, Lord Tinwald, MP (1680-1763)
after Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 - Dover 1784)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1750 - 1842 (restored)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
740 x 610 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959492
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Charles Erskine, Lord Tinwald, MP (1680-1763), after Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 - Dover 1784), circa 1750, apparently inscribed on the back E. H. [E. Holder of York; restorer] A.D. 1842. A. RAMSEY [sic] pinxit”. A painted oval half-length portrait of Charles Erskine, Lord Justice Clerk, in judicial robes of office. Charles Erskine was the third son of Sir Charles Erskine (Areskine), 1st Baronet of Alva and great grandson of John Erskine, Earl of Mar and Treasurer of Scotland. He was appointed first Professor of Public Law in the University of Edinburgh in 1707, Solicitor-General for Scotland in 1725 and was elevated to the Bench as Lord Tinwald in 1744. He was created Lord Justice Clerk on 15th June 1848. He married firstly Grizel Grierson in 1712 and secondly Mrs Elizabeth Maxwell in 1753. This is a version of a signed and dated 1750 portrait of Charles Erskine by Allan Ramsay in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Provenance
Probably bought by Charles Winn before 1833, when it was loaned to the Mechanics' Institute of Wakefield; thence by descent; purchased by the National Trust by private treaty sale from Lord St Oswald in 2010
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Allan Ramsay (Edinburgh 1713 - Dover 1784), artist
References
Brockwell 1915 Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection of Lord St Oswald at Nostell Priory, London 1915, cat. no. 111, p/ 196 Smart and Ingamells 1999 Alastair Smart and John Ingamells (ed.), Allan Ramsay A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, Yale, 1999, no. 512a