GORDON, SIR JOHN WATSON

GORDON, SIR JOHN WATSON
   a portrait-painter, born in Edinburgh; was a pupil of Raeburn's, and his successor as a painter of portraits; executed portraits of most of the eminent Scotchmen of his time, and among the number Sir Walter Scott, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Cockburn, Dr. Chalmers, and Professor Wilson (1788-1864).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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