William Drummond of Hawthorndon
1766
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1766
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
William Drummond of Hawthorndon is a 1766 by John Finlayson, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This is a black-and-white portrait of a man in old-fashioned clothes. He wears a dark, patterned jacket with a high lace collar. His hair is neatly curled, and he has a serious but calm expression. The text below the image names him *William Drummond of Hawthorndon* and calls him a historian and poet. His outfit looks formal, like someone important in the 1700s. Look up The Cleveland Museum of Art to see more portraits like this.
John Finlayson (c. 1730–1776) was an English engraver. Finlayson was born about the year 1730, and worked in London. In 1773 he received a premium from the Society of Arts, and about three years after this he died. He…
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