James Byres [ Travel ]
… Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, PG 2601. Image Hugh Douglas Hamilton, ‘James Byres of Tonley’, c. 1782-1791, Aberdeen City Council. Abstract James Byres settled in Rome in the 1750s and lived in the Eternal City for over thirty years, at a time when the Grand Tour reached its height of popularity. Working as a guide, … social practices of the travellers of the Grand Tour and of the artists who came to finish their training in the Eternal City. James Byres was born in 1734 in Tonley to a Jacobite 1 family in Aberdeenshire, in the northeast of Scotland. …
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