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Lady Agnes Douglas

 

 

 

 

Scottish beauty. and prominent courtier to King James VI (James I), Lady Agnes Douglas (1574 – 1607) was the daughter of William Douglas, Earl of Morton and his wife Agnes Leslie, the daughter of George Leslie, Earl of Rothes. She was married (1592) to Archibald Campbell, seventh earl of Argyll (1575 – 1638) as his first wife.

 

A famous beauty, Agnes was popularly renowned as one of the ‘Seven Pearls of Lochleven.’ Her portrait (1599), now in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, is attributed to the Dutch painter Adrian Vanson, who was court painter in Edinburgh during this period. This portrait is unique in that Vanson used gold leaf rather than gold paint to depict the countess’s magnificent jewellery.

 

Agnes died from the effects of childbirth, and her son Archibald Campbell was the marquess of Argyll executed (1661) by order of Charles II, for his complicity with the death of Charles I (1649).

 

 

 

 

 

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