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Jamesone

George Jamesone.
Self-portrait, 1637.
From Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums collections. Used with permission.

George Jamesone,
or Jameson,
born Aberdeen, 1588.
The first Scottish portrait painter.
He lived Schoolhill, Aberdeen town centre (see map).
From 1633 he was working in Edinburgh.
He died 1644, age 56 yrs.
He was bur Greyfriars church, C Edinburgh.
His house at Schoolhill, Aberdeen, was demolished in 1886.
There is a self-portrait of him in Duff House, Aberdeenshire.
He had issue:

1. Marjory Jamesone,
   mar John Alexander.

   
   

2. Mary Jamesone,
   born 1644.
   She sewed four large needlework panels of Biblical scenes c.1665.
   [Kelly, 1940] and [St.Nicholas' guide book] attribute them to Mary.
   However [Atherton] says it was her sister Marjory who sewed them.

   Mary mar 1stly to John Burnett [or Burnet, of Elrick, Aberdeen].
   He died, bur St.Nicholas', Aberdeen.
   Mary mar 2ndly to James Gregory [the mathematician, born 1638].
   He died 1675.

   Mary mar 3rdly, 1677, to George Ædie and had issue.
   After she died in 1684, George sold her tapestries to St. Nicholas' church in Aberdeen, where they survive.

George Jamesone's house, Schoolhill, Aberdeen, c.1880 (demolished 1886).
From Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums collections. Used with permission.

George Jamesone's house, Schoolhill, Aberdeen, c.1880.
From Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums collections. Used with permission.

George Jamesone's house, Schoolhill, Aberdeen.
Painting 1898 (after demolition).
From Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums collections. Used with permission.

Plaque to George Jamesone at 22 Schoolhill, Aberdeen (former site of his house).
Photo 2008. See full size and other shot.

Plaque to George Jamesone at 22 Schoolhill, Aberdeen.
Photo 2008. See full size and other shot.

Marjory Jamesone and John Alexander. By her father George Jamesone.
From Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums collections. Used with permission.

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References

• Art in North East Scotland by David Atherton.

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Sources yet to be consulted

• "Four needlework panels attributed to Mary Jamesone in the West end of the Church of St. Nicholas, Aberdeen", William Kelly, The Miscellany of the Third Spalding Club, Volume II (1940).