Provost George Christie (1826 – 1902)
People expect the Stirling Smith to have portraits of past Provosts of Stirling. This is not the case, for unlike the other major Scottish cities, Stirling has never commissioned or curated civic portraits. There are few Stirling Provosts represented in the Smith’s collections and most, like this one, were painted
Lady Arabella Stuart (1575 – 1615)
This sad token of the short life of Lady Arabella Stuart is a ‘protest portrait’ and is one of the hundreds of pewter pieces in the Stirling Smith collections. Arabella was an English noblewoman of Scottish descent, a great-great-granddaughter of
Margaret Shirra and Son
We know little of the details of this mother and child portrait, which is in the Smith collections and is currently on show in the Stirling Heads Exhibition. Margaret Shirra (nee Low) was the wife of James Shirra (1812-1888), a Stirling draper. The portrait was painted by Stirling-born artist Sir
Agnes Smith Greig, George Harvey and Sir Daniel McNee
For the next few weeks, portraits of Stirling people from the Stirling Smith collections are on show in the Smith. This is the engagement portrait of Agnes, daughter of the Reverend Christopher Greig of St Ninians Parish Church. Aged 28, she married the advocate Alexander Stuart Logan. The painting