Ramsay, Allan
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![Portrait painted in 1722by William Aikman (1682–1731) Ramsay's friend, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, owned Aikman's portrait of Ramsay, in imitation of whose verse he had written on the back of the canvas:Here painted on this canvas cloutby Aikman's hand is Ramsay's snout[1] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://zoomviewer.toolforge.org/fcgi-bin/iipsrv.fcgi/?iiif=cache%2F94aa6c8a675b1dfe486e831865a482b1.tif/full/,340/0/native.jpg "Portrait painted in 1722by William Aikman (1682–1731) Ramsay's friend, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, owned Aikman's portrait of Ramsay, in imitation of whose verse he had written on the back of the canvas:Here painted on this canvas cloutby Aikman's hand is Ramsay's snout[1] (Source: Wikimedia)")
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Wikimedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Allan-Ramsay.jpg
Basic data
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October 15, 1684 in Leadhills
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†January 7, 1758 in Edinburgh
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Schriftsteller, Buchhändler, Verleger
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Edinburgh
Iconography
![Portrait painted in 1722by William Aikman (1682–1731) Ramsay's friend, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, owned Aikman's portrait of Ramsay, in imitation of whose verse he had written on the back of the canvas:Here painted on this canvas cloutby Aikman's hand is Ramsay's snout[1] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Allan-Ramsay.jpg "Portrait painted in 1722by William Aikman (1682–1731) Ramsay's friend, Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, owned Aikman's portrait of Ramsay, in imitation of whose verse he had written on the back of the canvas:Here painted on this canvas cloutby Aikman's hand is Ramsay's snout[1] (Source: Wikimedia)")
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Biographical information from the WeGA
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