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George the Third. One of these represents Albinia Panton, 

 Duchess of Ancaster, Mistress of the Eobes to Caroline, 

 Qaeen of George the Second. Horace Walpole maliciously 

 describes her as a Newmarket horse-jockey's daughter. Her 

 father became Master of Running Horses to the King. She 

 is referred to in Spence's "Anecdotes." She married a 

 Douglas as her second husband, and died in 1745. A game- 

 piece by Jan Weenix, 1621-60, is considered a good example 

 of Dutch finesse in the rendering of fur and feathers. The 

 principal dead bird is a sheldrake ; the members of the Club 

 are invited to identify the rest. 



In the billiard-room the charming portrait of Miss Scott 

 of Belford (afterwards wife of Sir John Scott-Douglas) as a 

 child, is by Harlow, a disciple of Sir Joshua Reynolds. The 

 picture over the fire-place represents the Challenge of Barletta, 

 1503, an incident in Italian knightly history, which forms 

 the basis of D'Azeglio's famous novel of Ettore Fieramosca. 

 The painting is a notable example of modern Italian artistic 

 degeneracy, and is greatly admired by those who have no 

 eye for line, colour, composition, or chiaroscuro. In the 

 drawing-room, the full-length portrait of Sir John James 

 Scott-Douglas, 1792-1836, represents the last (unfinished) work 

 of Sir Henry Raeburn, died 1823. The head is painted in 

 his best manner. Sir John is represented in the uniform of 

 the 15th (the King's) Hussars, in which he served at Waterloo. 

 Other paintings in this room are Mrs Opie, author of the 

 Moral Tales, by her husband, John Opie ; Sir George H. Scott 

 Douglas in yachting dress, and Lady Scott Douglas in a 

 Spanish dress, by Count Boratinsky ; Miss Scott Douglas, 

 by Buckner ; A Dairy-maid, by Graham Gilbert, the Scots 

 Venetian. In the library is a head of the Black Douglas, 

 the companion of Robert Bruce, killed in Spain in 1330. It 

 is a copy of a paintin^>' at Kinmont. It is scarcely likely that 

 portraits were painted in Scotland in the fourteenth century, 

 but this representation of "the Good Sir James" has at least 

 the merit of corresponding with the likeness sketched by 

 Barbour from hearsay at first hand. 



From the foot of the Green Walk, a view is obtained of 

 the ruins of Roxburgh Castle, at the siege of which in 1460 

 was killed James the Second — described in the following year 



