galleryofunknowns:Follower of Enoch Seeman, ‘Portrait of Elizabeth Allen’, 1700s, sold for 2,000 GBP
galleryofunknowns:Follower of Enoch Seeman, ‘Portrait of Elizabeth Allen’, 1700s, sold for 2,000 GBP at Sotheby’s Two Great Scottish Property Auctions, March 2017.Elizabeth Allen was the second wife of Alexander Forbes, 4th and last Lord of Pitsligo, who participated in the Jacobite rebellion. Alexander traveled to France when he was young, obtaining there a love of writing - eventually culminating in his first published work, Essays Moral and Philosophical. He was also a friend of the Stuart family, twice taking up arms to rebel; but when it failed, he moved into hiding around the moors of Pitsligo, disguised as a hermit, then later living under the name ‘Mr. Brown’ with his son John. He narrowly avoided capture in 1756, hiding in a small recess behind a bed when a search party came to comb the home in which he lived. He died, presumably never captured, in 1762, with one son by his first wife, Rebecca Norton. (From Henderson, T. M. (1900). Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 19. (pg. 377). His son retained the title of ‘Master of Pitsligo’, and the property moved by descent through William Forbes the Younger (b.1773 - d.1828) into the Fettercairn House, owned by Miss Williamina Belsches (b. 1776 - d.1810), whom William fell in love with and eventually married - much to the chagrin of Sir Walter Scott, who was quite in love with her and wrote several works inspired by her.The Estate of Fettercairn house was divided up and sold via Sotheby’s in March 2017. -- source link
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