The moll remarkable part of the furniture of Tay mouth is the
Portraits: here being a moft conliderable collection of the works
of Jamefon, the Scotch Vandyek, an elevé of' this family.
In the fame room with the famous genealogical picture are
about twenty heads of perfons of the fame family. Among them
is the laft Sir Duncan Campbel, a favorite of James V I . ; and not lefs
fo of Anne of Denmark; who, after the acceflion, often by letter
folicited his prefence at her new court; and fent him, as a mark of
innocent efteem, a ring fet with diamonds, and ornamented with a
pair of doves.
The other pictures of Jamefon’s performance are in a fmall
parlour; but unfortunately much injured by an attempt to repair
them. There, are the heads of
William Graham, Earl of Airth, 1637. He was originally Earl
of Menteith, a title derived from a long train of anceitors. He was
much favored by Charles I. who indulged his pride by conferring
on him, at his requeft, the earldom of Strathern, which he pretended
to, as being defcended from David Stuart, nephew to David II.
Unfortunately his vanity induced him to hint fome pretenfions to
the crown. Charles punilhed his folly by depriving him of both
earldoms ; but, relenting foon after, created him Earl of Airth, with
precedence due to the creation of Malife, E. o í Menteith byjames I.
John Lord Lefsly, 1636, afterwards Duke of Rothes *. He died
in 1681 ; and had, according to the extravagant folly of the times,
a funeral of uncommon magnificence+.
• V id e V o l. I. 108.
I Represented in four large plates, publillicd by 'Thomas Sommers.
Sv.i; James
F James, Marquis of Hamilton, 1636, afterwards Duke of Hamilton.
I Anne, Marchionefs of Hamilton, 1636, daughter to the former,
land, on the death of his brother, heirefs to the title and fortune.
The lady who is diftinguilhed for her works of piety and charity,
in the ille of Arran, by the glorious title of the G o o d .
i Archibald Lord Napier, 1637, grand-lon of the celebrated
John Napier, author of the Logarithms.
I William Earl Marijhal, 1637, a remarkable fufferer in the cauies
of Charles I. and I I .: rewarded, on the Reftoration, with the privy
feal of Scotland.
t The Lord of Loudon, 1637, afterwards chancellor of Scotland.
| ‘Thomas Hamilton, Lord Binning, fon of the firft Earl of Ha-
dington, and fuccelfor to the title. In 1640, being commandant
of the garrifon of Dunglas, then held for the Covenanters, was
blown up, with feveral other perfons of quality, as Crawfurd aflerts,
by the defperate treachery of his page, an Engli/b boy, who fet fire
to the powddr magazine.
John Earl of Mar, 1636, made Knight of the Bath at the
creation of Henry, Prince of Wales.
: Sir Robert Campbel, of Glenurchie, 1641.
§ Sir John Campbel, of Glenurchie, 1642.
% In the drawing room are two portraits, by Vandyek, o f two O th e r
noble brothers, diftinguilhed characters in the unhappy times of TRAI
Sharks I. The firft may be ftyled one of the moft capital of
that great painter’s performances. Sir Robert Walpole, the beft
judge of paintings in his time, was of that opinion, and would
Slave given any price for it. There is particular reafon for the
m exquifite
PORTS.