04/15/2025
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today. This portrait of Robert Burns by artist Alexander Nasmyth is the best-known image of Scotland’s national bard. Alexander Nasmyth and Robert Burns were good friends. The portrait was commissioned by the publisher William Creech to be engraved for a new edition in 1787 of poems by Robert Burns - the Edinburgh first edition and known colloquially as the “Creech edition” from its publisher, William Creech. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has this Edinburgh Creech 1787 first edition of his "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect." Robert Burns visited Dunblane that same year, 1787. Dunblane Burns Club funded conservation work on this volume. So this gives the closest likeness of how Robert Burns looked when he visited Dunblane.
This portrait is in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Portraits of Robert Burns created by Alexander Nasmyth can also be seen in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Musuem and Art Gallery, and London’s National Portrait Gallery. A number of other artists depicted Robert Burns in artwork, and still do to this day
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