Scottish Castle painting from our Art Gallery
Dunrobin Castle

Castle Paintings from Scotland

Another oil painting in our art gallery this showing the view from the gardens, making the effect more chateau like than Scottish Castle.

Dunrobin is an odd name it sounds like a bank managers retiral home. Apparently in Gaelic it means Robins Fort.

Parts of the building date back to the 13th century and it has been added onto ever since. It claims titles like Britain's longest continually occupied dwelling or the largest house in the north, it has 189 rooms and is situated near Golspie in Sutherland about 60 miles south of John o Groats.

There had been castles on this site back to the 13th century at least. During the Jacobite uprisings the Jacobites raided the castle and the, then 17th Earl of Sutherland escaped and joined forces with the Butcher Cumberland who was in Aberdeen massing forces to depose Bonnie Prince Charlie.

In 1845 the majority of the present building was re-modeled by Sir Charles Barry who was at that time very popular after having re-modeled the houses of parliament. Imagine with the communications and challenges of travel in these days, for them to not only have heard of Barry but to get him up there.

Close associations with the Clan Sutherland it is their family seat and has a computer in the library for genealogy tracking.