James Byres [ Travel ]
… Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, D 5361. Image Franciszek Smuglevicz, ‘James Byres of Tonley and members of his family’, c. 1780, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, PG 2601. Image Hugh Douglas Hamilton, ‘James Byres of … 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. Forced into exile following the 1745-46 uprising in favour of the Stuart cause, Byres and his family lived first in France before moving to Rome, where a large Jacobite community had been established since 1719. 2 …
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