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
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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) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1783-86 Found 1: ¶ 10 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1816-1818.