A painting depicting the aftermath of the Massacre of Glencoe has been restored by Dundee-based conservators.<\/p>\n
Almost 40 members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed in February 1692 after soldiers were ordered to attack them.<\/p>\n
The painting, known as the Widow of Glencoe, shows a grieving woman standing next to the body of a man at the foot of a mountain with snow covering the ground.<\/p>\n
Catriona Davidson, of Glencoe Folk Museum, said the “incredible” restoration of its painting had removed centuries of dirt – and revealed fine details, including a tear on the woman’s cheek.<\/p>\n
Generations of a family in Luxemburg had owned the 19th Century artwork before they donated it to Glencoe Folk Museum in 2023.<\/p>\n
The painting is not signed and the only clue to who painted it is a motif called a monogram. Glencoe Folk Museum said it was believed the painter may have been an artist called James Goldingham.<\/p>\n
There is a record of the artwork being exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1881.<\/p>\n
Conservators Egan, Matthews & Rose completed the restoration as part of a major revamp of the museum.<\/p>\n
Davidson told BBC Scotland News: “The detail they have pulled out of the painting is just incredible.<\/p>\n
“The snow is a pure white it wasn’t before. There is a tear on the woman’s face that you couldn’t really see before. It’s an incredible transformation.”<\/p>\n
A spokesperson added that further research would be done to confirm the artist.<\/p>\n
Glencoe Folk Museum, which is housed inside two heather-thatched cottages in Lochaber, was set up more than 50 years ago by local women who stood in front of bulldozers to save the cottages from demolition.<\/p>\n
It is home to 6,000 artefacts and its collection includes Jacobite relics and memorabilia from the two World Wars.<\/p>\n
Work on a \u00a33m revamp started last month and the new-look museum is set to open next spring.<\/p>\n
Exiled king<\/p>\n
An estimated 38 people were killed in the Massacre of Glencoe.<\/p>\n
The MacDonalds were targeted because of their support for the exiled King James VII of Scotland, who was also James II of England before he was deposed in 1688.<\/p>\n
The clan backed the restoration of the Stuart dynasty to the British throne and had taken part in the first Jacobite Rising of 1689.<\/p>\n
Historians say they were late delivering an oath of allegiance to the Protestant King William III, and had been branded as rebels by the secretary of Scotland, Sir John Dalrymple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A painting depicting the aftermath of the Massacre of Glencoe has been restored by Dundee-based conservators. Almost 40…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1153484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,314064,314065,4022,77,105845,314062,314063,56737,16,15],"class_list":["post-1154705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-catriona-davidson","tag-clan-macdonald-of-glencoe","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-glencoe","tag-glencoe-folk-museum","tag-massacre-of-glencoe","tag-restoration","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117113924190266565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1153484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}