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| Keywords: Allan Ramsay 003.jpg artwork Creator Allan Ramsay Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Armenian costume This portrait was painted when Rousseau was in exile in London as a guest of the Scottish thinker David Hume This sympathetic portrait of Rousseau in Armenian costume was painted by the highly talented Scottish artist Allan Ramsay Rousseau's unusual clothing aroused great curiosity on his arrival in London and this picture gives a very good idea of the fascination it provoked Ramsay planned the portrait as a gift to his close personal friend and fellow Scot David Hume Hume who was himself an internationally eminent Enlightenment philosopher and historian had facilitated Rousseau's escape from France to Britain in 1766 He also found him somewhere to stay and secured a pension for him from King George III Ramsay painted a portrait of Hume as a companion to this picture to hang in Hume's own home also NGS Scottish National Portrait Gallery Sadly the friendship which helped to generate this sensitive portrait very quickly soured Rousseau quarrelled publically with his Scottish host and this affected his view of this portrait http //www bbc co uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/RBcJ9NoMR3ePiOjLjcnXYQ 1766 Oil on canvas cm 75 62 Institution National Gallery of Scotland The Yorck Project 10 000 Meisterwerke der Malerei DVD-ROM 2002 ISBN 3936122202 Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH http //mail wikipedia org/pipermail/wikide-l/2005-April/012195 html other versions <gallery>Allan Ramsay - Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 - 1778 - Google Art Project jpg</gallery> PD-old-100 PD-Art-YorckProject DEFAULTSORT 1766; Rousseau by Ramsay Allan Ramsay artist Portrait paintings in the National Gallery of Scotland Portraits of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1766 oil on canvas paintings in the United Kingdom Portrait 1766 portrait paintings from Great Britain Male 18th-century men looking at viewer in art 18th-century oil portraits of men at half length 18th-century portrait paintings in the United Kingdom Hand on chest in portrait paintings Male fur clothing in art Male fur headgear in art Men wearing fur Rousseau Jean-Jacques Paintings by Allan Ramsay with fur Portrait paintings with neutral background Rococo portrait paintings of men Three-quarter view portrait paintings of men facing left Fur fashion in 1766 | ||||
