Hail to the 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767-1852), a man of startling vanity and self-glorification.
Alexander Hamilton thought that, as his ancestor had married the daughter of James II, he should rightfully be the King of Scotland. He was a figure of great renown as a dandy.
He also felt a somewhat over-intimate connection with Napoleon and in 1811 commissioned no less an artist than Jacques-Louis David to paint The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries.
This was just one of his treasures – a mere tip of the iceberg of his sensational acquisitions of art and artefacts of
