Dumcrieff House in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, belonged to Dr John Rogerson until his death in 1823
Nine-bed property is being sold by H & H Land & Estates and comes with fishing rights and lodge in grounds
Dr Rogerson became Catherine the Great s personal physician in 1776 after serving as a medic in her court
Catherine was the longest reigning female ruler of Russia and was renowned for her raucous sex life
Philosophers David Hume and Thomas Carlyle under review for slavery links
National Galleries Scotland will “address issues relating to colonialism and slavery” in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.
David Hume was a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment
Philosophers David Hume and Thomas Carlyle are set to have their links to slavery reviewed by art gallery curators as the thinkers who led the Scottish Enlightenment come under scrutiny.
Staff at the National Galleries Scotland (NGS) group have stated in internal documents that some figures linked to the Scottish Enlightenment were “largely funded by the slave trade”.
Figures associated with the great period of progress from the 18th to 19th centuries will be reassessed “to address issues relating to colonialism and slavery” in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, they say.
As the debate around Maggi Hambling’s monument to Mary Wollstonecraft’s legacy reaches its second week, there has been little scrutiny so far of other artworks that commemorate the writer, philosopher and women’s rights advocate, who was famously described as ‘that hyena in petticoats’ by Horace Walpole. Best known today for
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Wollstonecraft was a prolific writer, whose publications included a conduct book, a novel, a travel diary, several children’s morality tales, a treatise calling for the abolition of slavery and a history of the French revolution. She lived an unconventional life of courage and conviction. Yet her image has long been fixed in our collective imagination: as the striking, thoughtful woman captured in two portraits by her friend John Opie.