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Lot Essay
Little is known of the sitter but there are numerous links with Raeburn. Mylne married, in 1785, Anne, a relative of David Hunter of Blackness, Dundee (1734-1809), a noted art collector who had sat to Raeburn circa 1788 (D. Mackie, op.cit., no. 414; National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh).
Captain David Kinloch (1736-1818), another sitter to Raeburn in the early 1970s (Mackie, op.cit., no.492), married, in 1786, as his second wife, Isabella Mylne, daughter of a Thomas Mylne of Milnefield. Isabella had previously sat to Gainsborough. Mylne's painting is clearly part of this circle of patronage. On stylistic grounds, the portrait is a work of the mid-1790s, probably done at most some four or five years before the sitter's death.
We are grateful to Dr. David Mackie, St. Catharine's College, University of Cambridge, for the above entry.
Captain David Kinloch (1736-1818), another sitter to Raeburn in the early 1970s (Mackie, op.cit., no.492), married, in 1786, as his second wife, Isabella Mylne, daughter of a Thomas Mylne of Milnefield. Isabella had previously sat to Gainsborough. Mylne's painting is clearly part of this circle of patronage. On stylistic grounds, the portrait is a work of the mid-1790s, probably done at most some four or five years before the sitter's death.
We are grateful to Dr. David Mackie, St. Catharine's College, University of Cambridge, for the above entry.