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The ceiling may have been part of a redecoration of the castle in 1617, when King James planned to visit during his "salmon-like" return to Scotland. Melville was instructed to make "his house of Burntyland patent" for his majesty's reception. One of the documented Scottish painters of the period, James Workman, lived in Burntisland. [7]
The National Museum of Scotland displays a ceiling from Rossend Castle, Burntisland, Fife, [26] and a screen from Wester Livilands, near Stirling. [27] Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery has a ceiling from Robert Drummond of Carnock's house. A room from Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline's Pinkie House is displayed at the Museum of ...
Rossend Castle: tower: private offices: Dury & Melville families painted ceiling in National Museum of Scotland: Rosyth Castle: Ruin: in Naval dockyard: Rumgally House: tower house: 16th century: no access, within Naval dockyard: St Andrews Castle: Ruin: Historic Scotland: Scotstarvit Tower: Historic Scotland: Wemyss Castle: Historic House: Private
In the late 1580s James VI of Scotland asked him to help the printer Robert Waldegrave who was in trouble in England. [15] He was Chancellor when James VI sailed to meet Anne of Denmark. On 11 May 1590 he hosted the Danish Admiral Peder Munk at Rossend Castle at Burntisland.
Ross continued alone until 1916, when he retired to his home in Saxe-Coburg Place, Edinburgh, occasionally undertaking small commissions. He was arrested in 1915 for sketching in a prohibited area, while studying Rossend Castle in Fife, and fined five shillings. In 1918 he was elected to the Royal Scottish Academy as Professor of Antiquities.
The Castle was built between 1566 and 1572 by George, the 4th Earl of Caithness, for his son William Sinclair. According to the Historic Environment Scotland, "[George's] initials and those of his ...
Pieces of a ceiling at a Tesco supermarket in Inverness, Scotland, collapsed after the city experienced heavy rainfall and thunderstorms, according to local news reports.This footage posted to ...
When he arrived in Scotland in November 1561, Mary showed him her favour by letting him ride a horse that was a present from her half-brother Lord Robert Stewart. He gave her a book of his own poems. On 14 February 1563, St Valentine's day, Chastelard was discovered in the Queen's chamber under her Great Bed at Rossend Castle at Burntisland.