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Article: Scott miniature opens new chapter.
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- Selkirk Weekend Advertiser (Selkirk, Scotland)
- Article date:
- November 16, 2007
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A PREVIOUSLY unknown portrait of Sir Walter Scott as a polio-wracked child has been found in Vienna, writes Bob Burgess.
The tiny painting shows the future sheriff of Selkirk as a four-year-old.
It was painted in London in the spring or early summer of 1775 when the young Walter was about to visit the spa town of Bath in the hope of curing his lame right leg which had been affected by polio when he was two.
The painting is by the British artist Richard Collins (1755-1831) and it pre-dates the Scottish National Portrait Gallery's painting of the author and poet as a child.
It measures just over an inch-and-a-half high and is signed with ...