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The Skating Minister: The Story Behind the Painting
The Skating Minister The Story Behind the Painting Author:Duncan Thomson The portrait of Reverend Robert Walker by Sir Henry Raeburn is now world famous as an icon of Scottish culture. (More by-products of this painting are sold by the National Gallery in Scotland where it hangs than any other picture in its collection.) This is the story behind the painting of the black-clad minister as he skates enigmatically on a ... more »gray and wintry afternoon.« less