Raeburn painting to carry warning

ONE of Scotland’s most iconic paintings, the Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, is to carry a warning that it may have been painted by a Frenchman.

The painting, long thought to be the work of Scottish artist Sir Henry Raeburn, is now to be re-labelled following claims that it is in fact the work of Henri-Pierre Danloux.

Stephen Lloyd, senior curator at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, has spent seven years studying the painting and first questioned its authorship last month. He believes it to be the work of the French painter who fled from Paris during the French revolution.

The plaque next to the work will now be amended.