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This picture hangs in the dining-room of Pitfirrane. <strong>The</strong> eldest son, Peter, who eventually became an Admiral, is seen on the right of the large canvas, dressed in that delightfully picturesque uniform of the „middy‟ of Nelson‟s day, such as one sees some of the „Wet Bobs‟ at Eton garbed in on the 4th of June. <strong>The</strong> three or four „babies‟ of the family are in the white frock and sash of the period and seated on the grass on one side of the picture; the rest of the children are extended in a gamboling line right across the canvas. <strong>The</strong> father and mother (she alone seated) survey the juvenile host with looks of satisfaction. David Allan painted this unique group roundabout 1784. He was born in 1744 at Alloa, not far off Pitfirrane and Limekilns. <strong>The</strong>re are also separate portraits of Sir John Halkett, 4th baronet, and Mary, his wife, done by Sir Joshua Reynolds. <strong>The</strong> artist probably painted them about eighteen years before his death, which occurred in 1792. <strong>The</strong> portrait of Sir John shows a fine, manly squire, fit sire of fourteen, who looks as if he did himself well, yet not too well. Both pictures, while falling short of what Sir Joshua has achieved in other canvases, still stand out like thoroughbreds from the lesser here around them. On the wall opposite is a full-length life-sized portrait of Peter, the 6th baronet, now become Admiral of the Blue, by Sir John Watson Gordon, P.R.S.A., R.A., whose practice as a portrait-painter in Scotland was only inferior to Raeburn‟s; during his day most of the leading Scotsmen sat to them. Near this very good-looking sailor are several of earlier Halketts, including an excellent painting by Allan Ramsay of the Sir Peter who represented <strong>Dunfermline</strong> in Parliament in 1734, and was Lieut.-Colonel of Lee‟s Regiment at the battle of Gladsmuir, where Sir John Cope was defeated in ‟45. Sir Peter was taken prisoner by the Chevalier‟s troops and released on parole. Later he was one of the five officers who, in February 1746, refused to break it and rejoin their respective regiments on the Duke of Cumberland‟s command, and threat of forfeiting their commissions. <strong>The</strong>ir reply „that his <strong>Royal</strong> Highness was master of their commissions but not of their honour‟ was approved by the Government. Nine years afterwards, while in comand of the 44th Regiment, he fell, with his youngest son James (also on the wall, by his side) in General Braddock‟s defeat by the Indians in America in 1755. At one end of the same room is a full-length portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence of Elizabeth Todd, who married John Halkett, one of the family of fourteen. This boy lived to be Governor of the Bahama Islands and died about 1840. <strong>The</strong> portrait, a beautiful example of Lawrence‟s art, shows a full-blooded dark-eyed young English woman, in a high-waisted white dress against a distant landscape. Finally, in the dining-room hangs a fine and dignified portrait by Sir Robert Gibb of Sir Arthur Halkett, 8th and last baronet. He is show on in the uniform of the Fife Artillery Militia, of which he was Colonel, wearing his Crimean medals and the badge of the baronets of Nova Scotia. It as Sir Robert Gibb who painted the battle pictures, „Forward the 42nd‟ and the „Thin Red Line.‟ 49
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