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    WHAT GREAT PAINTINGS SAY

    Apr 14, 2022 2 minutes
    WORDS: CHARLOTTE HODGMAN
    Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray
    by David Martin, c1779

    Hanging in the Ambassador’s Room at Scone Palace in Perth, Scotland, is one of the most extraordinary works of British portraiture, and one whose story has only recently been rediscovered. It is the only known portrait of Dido Belle, the illegitimate daughter of Sir John Lindsay, an officer in the Royal Navy, and Maria Belle,

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