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Lot Essay
This picture commemorates an important event which was reported in the Kelso Mail on 21 October 1850. "A remarkable feat for a boy of nine years of age was accomplished on Saturday afternoon. Master R. Dennistoun son of Richard Dennistoun, Esq. Pinnaclehill, while fishing in the Tweed hooked a large salmon, and after a very fatiguing run of about two hours and a quarter succeeded in landing it, when it was found to be of the great weight of 21 lbs. The rod with which the fish was captured was a present to the youthful sportsman from the Duchess of Roxburghe, and this was the first occasion on which it had been used."
Richard Dennistoun (b. 1797) lived at Pinnacle Hill, near Kelso, and in 1839 married Frances Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Thomas Rishton Satterwaite of Lancaster, by whom she had two sons, Richard Campbell (b. 1841) and Francis Douglas (b. 1848), all of whom are depicted in this paintings along with a gillie.
Richard Dennistoun (b. 1797) lived at Pinnacle Hill, near Kelso, and in 1839 married Frances Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Thomas Rishton Satterwaite of Lancaster, by whom she had two sons, Richard Campbell (b. 1841) and Francis Douglas (b. 1848), all of whom are depicted in this paintings along with a gillie.