Portrait of James Byres

Introduction
Hypogaei by James Byres
Funeral of Maria Clementina
Prince Charles Edward Stuart
Paintings
Ganymede
St Cecilia
James Byres of Tonley
Portrait of James Byres
Dancing Cherubs
Hypogaei by James Byres
Piranesi plate dedicated to Byres
Head of child
Capriccio
Designs for King's College by James Byres
James Irvine of Drum
Sulphurs
Vases
Museo Pio Clementino
Statuette of Osiris
Melancholy remembrances
Acknowledgements

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This portrait of Byres was painted at Rome by Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740-1808) an Irish artist who lived in Italy from 1782-91. Hamilton also painted a companion portrait of Christopher Norton, which hung in Byres' Roman apartment. Hamilton moved in Jacobite circles and painted portraits of the sons of James VIII and III, Henry Benedict and Charles Edward, and of his granddaughter the Duchess of Albany.