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Archibald Skirving
(1749-1819)

NAME AUTHORITIES:
LOC:    Skirving, Archibald, 1749-1819
DNB:    Skirving, Archibald (1749-1819), portrait artist
LBT ID: ArSkirv1819    VIAF ID: 77160408    LOC ID: nr99012039
B/BAP:   1749-10
DIED:   1819-05-19
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Scottish portraitist, son of the poet Adam Skirving; he was captured and imprisoned while returning from Rome (1795); he is remembered for his chalk portrait of Robert Burns.
REFERENCES TO Archibald Skirving:
Walter Scott to Samuel Rogers, 30 May 1816 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)
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