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This portrait of Alasdair Ranaldson MacDonell (1771–1828), 15th Chief of Glengarry was painted in Rome while he was on the Grand Tour. Glengarry embodied the romanticised notions of the Highlands that prevailed throughout the nineteenth century. Considering himself to be the last true example of a traditional Highland Chief, Glengarry employed a skilled Gaelic poet and piper and travelled with a 'tail' of retainers made up of his clansmen. He took his 'tail' with him to Edinburgh on the occasion of George IV’s visit to Edinburgh in 1824. He was known as Alasdair Fiadhaich or Alasdair the untamed due to his fierce temper. This temper had particularly tragic results in 1798 when Glengarry killed Norman MacLeod, grandson of the Jacobite heroine Flora MacDonald, during a duel.
Museum of the Isles
Armadale
Title
Alasdair Ranaldson MacDonell (1771–1828), 15th Chief of Glengarry
Date
c.1790
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 250 x W 173 cm
Accession number
PD/CU/015
Acquisition method
bequeathed by Marsaili Cuninghame, 1999
Work type
Painting
Museum of the Isles
Armadale Castle, Armadale, Highland IV45 8RS Scotland
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