Duddingston Loch, Edinburgh
by Yvonne Johnstone
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Duddingston Loch, Edinburgh
Artist
Yvonne Johnstone
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Duddingston Loch is a loch located in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, Scotland, below Arthur's Seat. It is part of a nature reserve, being important for wildfowl, herons and the great crested grebe, as well as swans and ducks. It is the only natural loch in Edinburgh, and the largest in Holyrood Park. The artist Sir Henry Raeburn (1756 - 1823) painted Reverend Robert Walker (1755 - 1808) Skating on Duddingston Loch. Walker was minister of the Canongate Kirk and a member of the Edinburgh Skating Society. The club - the oldest of its kind in Britain - usually met on the frozen lochs of Duddingston or Lochend on the outskirts of Edinburgh. Walker's pose, as he glides across the ice, looks effortless, but would have been recognised by fellow skaters as a difficult and sophisticated manoeuvre. This small picture, showing a figure in action, is quite unlike other known portraits by Raeburn.
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April 16th, 2019
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