Flora Macdonald

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Flora Macdonald (1722–1790), daughter of a farmer of South Uist, assisted Prince Charles Edward Stuart to escape to Skye after his defeat at Culloden in 1746. In this portrait, painted after she had been released from the Tower of London and before her marriage to Allan Macdonald of Kingsburgh in 1750, she wears in her hair the white rose, a Jacobite emblem; the flowers in her hand no doubt allude to her Christian name.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

Flora Macdonald

Date

1749

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 74 x W 61 cm

Accession number

WA1960.76

Acquisition method

Transferred from the Bodleian Library, 1960

Work type

Painting

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