The empty chair

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Colin Douglas, doctor and novelist

Edinburgh

Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) was an Edinburgh painter whose output reflected his role in the Scottish Enlightenment. Agreeably, fluently, and for a decent fee, he painted everyone who was anyone, leaving hundreds of portraits, most of them unremarkable but for the distinction of their sitters.

A few are memorable. His skating clergyman glided briefly across the nation's postage stamps a few years ago. His portrait of Mrs Scott-Moncrieff is also widely reproduced. Once, in a frigate in the South China Sea …