While there, he's confronted by his landlady, Mrs Shairp, who he'd previously noted for being promiscuous. With her children ...

canvas, 30 x 25 in.; frame, 37-1/2 x 32-1/2 x 3 in.

In the 18th century, it was a means of recording wealth and status, and Ramsay was one of the premier portrait painters of this era. He has painted Miss Shairp in a delightfully natural and informal ...

American, French, English an German vyces were tiagled in the air wi Scots accents, as a shairp April sun bleezed doon on a hunner styles o tartan. Wi the soon o pipes skirlin, the hail clamjamfry ...