Lord Mungo Murray (1668 –1700), Son of 1st Marquess of Atholl

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The subject wears a helmet or clogad, one of the three traditional symbols of the Highland chief and warrior as recorded in an early seventeenth-century poem by Domhnaill MacIain ‘ic Sheumais. The other two symbols were the mail shirt and sword. This painting also shows the traditional belted plaid, a large piece of material that was used to clothe the upper and lower body. It was the precursor of the modern-day kilt.

This portrait is probably an early nineteenth-century copy of a portrait, one version of c.1683 is in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, as we know that the family of its last owner purchased it in 1811. This was a period when the traditional role of the chief had already faded into oblivion, but the ideas of what it meant were being discussed and romanticised by the likes of Sir Walter Scott.

Museum of the Isles

Armadale

Title

Lord Mungo Murray (1668 –1700), Son of 1st Marquess of Atholl

Date

early 19th C (?)

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 110 x W 79 cm

Accession number

PD/CU/004

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Marsaili Cuninghame, 1999

Work type

Painting

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Armadale Castle, Armadale, Highland IV45 8RS Scotland

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