GEORGE ENGLEHEART (1750-1829)

Captain A. Mackay, facing left in scarlet coat with blue collar and loops of silver embroidery, silver epaulette, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair

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GEORGE ENGLEHEART (1750-1829)
Captain A. Mackay, facing left in scarlet coat with blue collar and loops of silver embroidery, silver epaulette, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair
oval, 3 in. (76 mm.) high, silver-gilt frame, the reverse with plaited hair
Provenance
A. G. A. Mackay.
Literature
G. C. Williamson and H. L. D. Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750-1829 Miniature Painter to George III, London, 1902, p. 106.

Lot Essay

Captain Aeneas Mackay of Scotstoun raised a company for Lord MacLeod in the High Borders in which he served but he was transferred into a cavalry regiment of the Honourable East India Company and was wounded and taken prisoner in 1780 at the battle of Conjeveram. He returned to Scotland in 1784 and bought the estate of Scotstoun, Peebles.
He married Janet Campbell, sister of the Countess of Caithness by whom he had one son and secondly Miss Mylne of Mylnefield. He died in Edinburgh in 1807.

Williamson and Engleheart (op. cit.) record that Captain Mackay sat to George Engleheart in 1798.

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