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A PINK WAX PORTRAIT RELIEF BELIEVED TO BE ROSS OF ROSSIE
Lot 293

A PINK WAX PORTRAIT RELIEF BELIEVED TO BE ROSS OF ROSSIE

ATTRIBUTABLE TO M.MORISON, CIRCA 1830'S

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A PINK WAX PORTRAIT RELIEF BELIEVED TO BE ROSS OF ROSSIE
ATTRIBUTABLE TO M.MORISON, CIRCA 1830'S
Wearing uniform with high collar and epaulettes, signed M.Morison, in a rectangular gilt brass mounted frame
The wax - 2¼in. (6cm.) high
Together with a white wax relief of an old lady in a bonnet believed to be by David Morrison with old paper attribution on reverse in a rectangular gilt brass mounted frame, wax 2½in (6.5cm.) (2)

Specialist note

Horatio Ross was born at Rossie Castle on 5 September 1801, son of Hercules Ross and Henrietta Ross [nee Parish]. He was named after Lord Horatio Nelson. Nelson was one of Horatio Ross' godfathers. In 1831 Ross was elected member of Parliament for Aberdeen, standing as a reforming radical. He died at Rossie Lodge, Inverness-shire on 6 December 1886.