Lot Essay
Marion, second daughter of William Stirling of Keir (1725-1793), was born in 1774. She kept house at Keir for her brothers. James and Archibald, for some fifty years and died unmarried in 1842.
Details
Gregor Urquhart (b.c.1799)
Portrait of Marion Stirling, elder daughter of William Stirling of Keir, bust-length, in a dark grey dress, white lace bonnet and pink wrap
oil on canvas
30 x 25in. (76.2 x 63.5cm)
in a Georgian-style carved and gilt painted broken corner frame
Portrait of Marion Stirling, elder daughter of William Stirling of Keir, bust-length, in a dark grey dress, white lace bonnet and pink wrap
oil on canvas
30 x 25in. (76.2 x 63.5cm)
in a Georgian-style carved and gilt painted broken corner frame
Provenance
William Stirling of Keir, later Sir William Stirling-Maxwell,
9th Bt., undated inventory no.106
9th Bt., undated inventory no.106
Marion, second daughter of William Stirling of Keir (1725-1793), was born in 1774. She kept house at Keir for her brothers. James and Archibald, for some fifty years and died unmarried in 1842.