Portrait of Highland lady kept in cupboard for 100 years restored

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18210359

A 19th Century portrait that lay in a cupboard in a Highland castle for more than 100 years has been restored and put on public display.


The painting of a woman was in such a poor state it was not known who she was or who painted her.
Writing revealed by the restoration work showed it to be of Eliza Gordon Macpherson, whose family had owned Cluny Castle where the art was found.
It is being exhibited at the Clan Macpherson Museum in Newtonmore.


The portrait was by Sir John Watson Gordon, who was encouraged to paint by two of Scotland's leading painters - his uncle George Watson and family friend Sir Henry Raeburn.


It had lain there undiscovered for over 100 years, long before the residents at the time lived there."
she was discovered 10 years ago in a cupboard at the top of Cluny Castle.