In the words of Victorian author, Amelia Murray MacGregor:
Robert MacNab and Donald MacNaghton: The men wear the MacNab and MacNaghton clan tartans. The cuffs of MacNab's tunic are of an uncommon, almost military pattern. His boots seem out-of-place with his otherwise formal outfit. His bonnet has a rare design on the lower edge, and a red patch with a pinked border behind the cap-badge. MacNaghton wears what may be a shooting medal, and an unusual pattern on his socks. The background shows Ben More and Stobinian (Stob- an-Ean) , from Glen Dochart, Perthshire. MacLeay painted the men in Perthshire, and MacNab was paid two guineas to compensate him for being absent from his building business for a week while he was sitting to MacLeay at Callander. The addenda notes to the 1874 edition of The Highlanders names the second sitter as John McNaghton and states that he was supposed to have been robbed and murdered in Glasgow in 1868, and his body found four months later in the Clyde.
A percentage of the proceeds from the sale of this print will be donated to The Scottish Tartans Authority.
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