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	Allan Ramsay (1686-1758) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Allan Ramsay (October 15, 1686 – January 7, 1758), Scottish poet, was born at Leadhills, Lanarkshire to John Ramsay, superintendent of Lord Hopetoun's lead-mines and his wife, Alice Bower, a native of Derbyshire.
		His eldest child was Allan Ramsay, the portrait painter.
		Ramsay's first efforts in verse-making were inspired by the meetings of the Easy Club (founded in 1712), of which he was an original member; and in 1715 he became the Club Laureate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allan_Ramsay_(1686-1758) (1084 words)

	Allan Ramsay
		RAMSAY, ALLAN, an eminent portrait-painter, was the eldest son of the subject of the preceding article, and was born in Edinburgh in the year 1713.
		The name of Allan Ramsay junior, is found in the list of the members of the Academy of St Luke, an association of painters and lovers of painting, instituted at Edinburgh in 1729, but which does not appear to have done anything worthy of record.
		In 1767, Ramsay was appointed portrait-painter to the king and queen, which brought him an immense increase of employment, as portraits of their majesties were perpetually in demand for foreign courts, ambassadors, and public bodies at home.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/other/ramsay_allan1.htm (705 words)

	ScotsteXt! Allan Ramsay
		Allan Ramsay was born on the 15th October 1686 at Leadhills, in Lanarkshire.
		In the parish register of their baptisms, he is called "Allan Ramsay, weeg-maker," until the notice of the last, on the 8th August 1725, when we find him then assuming the designation of "bookseller," one, more congenial to the literary turn of his mind.
		Allan Ramsay seems to have possessed, in a high degree, the reputed characteristics of his countrymen, prudent self-control, with a strong desire to acquire wealth, and unpoetic though it may sound, he is one of those few, who, combining poetic pursuits with those of business, realized a competency.
	www.scotstext.org /makars/allan_ramsay/author.asp (1664 words)

	Allan Ramsay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		RAMSAY, ALLAN, the celebrated poet, was born at the village of Leadhills, in Lanarkshire, October 15, 1686.
		His grandfather, Robert Ramsay, writer or notary in Edinburgh, was the son of captain John Ramsay, a son of Ramsay of Cockpen, whose family was a branch of the Ramsays of Dalhousie, afterwards ennobled.
		Ramsay was the first to establish such a business in Scotland, and it appears that he did so, not without some opposition from the more serious part of the community, who found fault with him for lending the loose plays of that age to persons whose morals were liable to be tainted by them.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/ramsay_allan.htm (3607 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - The Response To Religion - Allan Ramsay - Works
		Ramsay’s Easy Club provided a stimulating atmosphere which nurtured his poetic talents, and it was here that he was first encouraged to write in the Scots vernacular.
		Ramsay delightedly describes scenes of chaotic drunkenness, and refuses to shy from the fact that her ale will be missed infinitely more than Maggy herself.
		Ramsay also develops the ‘Christis Kirk’ and ‘The Cherry and the Slae’ stanzas, further staples of Scottish literature, and so helps to lend to the Scots tradition an invaluable sense of continuity, and provides permanent classics of the canon.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/learning_journeys/the_response_to_religion/allan_ramsay/works.shtml (746 words)

	Allan Ramsay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Allan Ramsay (October 13, 1713 - August 10, 1784), Scottish portrait-painter, the eldest son of the author of The Gentle Shepherd, was born at Edinburgh.
		Ramsay manifested an aptitude for art from an early period, and at the age of twenty we find him in London studying under the Swedish painter Hans Huyssing, and at the St Martin's Lane Academy; and in 1736 he left for Rome, where he worked for three years under Solimena and Imperiali (Fernandi).
		On his return he settled in Edinburgh; and, having attracted attention by his head of Forbes of Culloden and his full-length of the duke of Argyll, he removed to London, where he was patronized by the duke of Bridgewater.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/a/al/allan_ramsay.html (383 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - The Response To Religion - Allan Ramsay
		Allan Ramsay was born in the village of Leadhills in Lanarkshire, on 15th October 1684.
		Ramsay was famous during his lifetime as author of the Scots pastoral play, The Gentle Shepherd, which was published in 1725 and performed as a ballad-opera in 1729.
		Ramsay’s antagonism to Presbyterian dourness was thus further incensed, and he wrote numerous poems against what he perceived to be its hypocrisy.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/learning_journeys/the_response_to_religion/allan_ramsay (432 words)

	RAMSAY, ALLAN (1686-1758) - LoveToKnow Article on RAMSAY, ALLAN (1686-1758) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		RAMSAY, ALLAN (1686-1758), Scottish poet, was born at Leadhills, Lanarkshire, on the i5th of October 1686.
		In the volume o1 poems published in 1722 Ramsay had shown his bent to this genre, especially in " Patie and Roger," which supplies two of the dramatis personae to his greater work.
		Gay visited him in Edinburgh, and Pope jraised his pastoralcompliments which were undoubtedly responsible for some of Ramsay's unhappy poetic ventures seyond his Scots vernacular.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RA/RAMSAY_ALLAN_1686_1758_.htm (1080 words)

	Ramsay, Allan (1684-1758). Poet. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Allan Ramsay was born in LeadhilIs (Lanarkahire) on 15 October 1684.
		Ramsay had an interest in early Scots poetry, and wrote additional verses to the anonymous burlesque poem "Christis Kirk on the Green" which is usually attributed to James I or James V.
		Allan Ramsay's eldest son was the portrait painter Allan Ramsay (1713-84), who pursued a literary career of his own (essays and pamphlets) after 1770.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~crumey/allan_ramsay.html (536 words)

	Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)
		The poet's fanciful biographer, George Chalmers, claimed Ramsay's descent from the Ramsays of Cockpen, a younger branch of the Ramsays of Dalhousie; but Burns Martin, in his Allan Ramsay: A Study of his Life and Works, has shown this to be quite untrue.
		Ramsay abandoned wigmaking for bookselling, setting up his shop in the High Street, 'on the South-side of the Cross-well', but moving about 1726 to the east end of the Luckenbooths, where he abandoned his old sign of the 'Mercury' in favour of 'Hawthornden's and Ben Johnson's [sic] Heads'.
		Although Ramsay did not actually found the eighteenth century revival in Scots literature — the first brick was laid by James Watson's Choice Collection of Comic and Serious Scots Poems, published in Edinburgh between 1706-11 - he added to it and popularised it in such a manner as to ensure its success.
	www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/RamsayAllan1686-1758.728.shtml (1190 words)

	SLAINTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Allan Ramsay was born in the remote Lanarkshire village of Leadhills in 1685.
		Ramsay, a strong nationalist, became increasingly involved in Edinburgh intellectual and literary circles from 1710 on.
		By 1720 Ramsay's interest in literature was such that he abandoned wigmaking and became a bookseller.
	www.slainte.org.uk /scotauth/ramsadsw.htm (497 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James Ramsay of Lambhill in Perthshire, his brother Andrew, his sister Helen and her husband, Andrew Hutson, in Pliverhall, of Drumtuthell, near Dunfermline,were tried by the Court of Dumfermline in February, 1732, for cattle stealing.
		Ramsay’s education continued at St John’s College, Cambridge, and in 1816, the same year that he gained his B.A., he was ordained as curate of Redden, Somerset.
		As a man of the church, Ramsay was notable for his unsectarlan outlook; he consistently advocated (with eventual success), the removal of the barriers separating the Scottish Episcopalian and English churches, and his theological sympathies lay with the evangelical movement, rather than with the high church.
	eddieramsay.com /1713-1784.htm (2710 words)

	Allan Ramsay
		Allan Ramsay, the son of the poet Allan Ramsay, was born in Edinburgh on 2nd October, 1713.
		In 1767 Ramsay was appointed as Principal Painter to the king.
		Ramsay travelled to Italy and after touring the country for two years, settled on the island of Ischia and was gradually able to resume painting.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jramsay.htm (387 words)

	Prince George Augustus of Mecklenburg-Strelitz by RAMSAY, Allan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Allan Ramsay was official painter to George III and Queen Charlotte from the date of the accession in 1760, although technically he only succeeded John Shackleton as Principal Painter in Ordinary in 1767.
		Ramsay was born in Edinburgh and his artistic abilities were brought to the attention of George III, when still Prince of Wales, by the 3rd Earl of Bute who served as mentor to the future king.
		The portrait, which was presumably painted for Queen Charlotte, is a late work by Ramsay characterised by looser brushwork combined with the gentle colouring associated with the artist.
	www.wga.hu /html/r/ramsay/mecklenb.html (417 words)

	Allan Ramsay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This pastoral drama, at first without songs, caused Leigh Hunt to write "Ramsay is in some respects the best pastoral writer in the world" and Pope is known to have admired the work.
		Ramsay started a circulating library, the first of its kind in Scotland and his shop was a favoured meeting place for literati.
		After 1730 Ramsay virtually stopped writing, and with admirable and rare perception said that he preferred not to take the risk that "the coolness of fancy that attends advanced years should make me risk the reputation I had acquired ".
	www.dundeecity.gov.uk /centlib/wighton/alram.htm (261 words)

	Whin-Bush Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Allan asserted the claims of the humanities, the healthy worldliness, the firm foundation on which enduring life is built.
		Allan was a light not a might, an artist not a preacher; still the reform-spirit is strong in man, and the desire to improve one's neighbours by satire comes to every-one at times, so Ramsay writes in his seventieth year:-
		Allan Ramsay was born in Leadhills in 1686.
	www.crawford-john.org.uk /whinbush.htm (1909 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.07.07
		The Scots painter Allan Ramsay (1713-1784), like many of his contemporaries, encountered Horace's Sabine villa first as a place of the imagination, the place outside which the poet encountered a wolf or found the pleasant hill that Pan exchanged for Arcadia's mountains.
		Ramsay was not content to leave the Sabine farm in the country of the imagination.
		Ramsay seems to have envisioned a substantial publication, with maps and engraved illustrations of the landscape.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2002/2002-07-07.html (1116 words)

	Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ramsay studied in London, in Rome, and in Naples (under Solimena), and when in 1739 he settled in London he brought a cosmopolitan air to British portrait painting.
		Ramsay, however, gradually gave up painting during the 1760s to devote himself to his other interests.
		He was the son of Allan Ramsay, the poet, and inherited his father's literary bent.
	www.wga.hu /bio/r/ramsay/biograph.html (169 words)

	Ramsay, Allan -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The Scottish poet Allan Ramsay maintained national poetic traditions by writing Scots poetry and by preserving the work of earlier Scottish poets at a time when most Scottish writers had been anglicized.
		Drawing on the precedents of Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson, Burns demonstrated how Scottish idioms and ballad modes could lend a new vitality to the language of poetry.
		U.S. physicist Allan Cormack was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9334140?tocId=9334140 (662 words)

	Allan Ramsay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Allan Ramsay can refer to more than one person.
		Allan Ramsay (1713-1784), the son, a portrait painter
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allan_Ramsay (82 words)

	Allan Ramsay
		Scotland's first major painter, Edinburgh-born Ramsay trained in London and Italy and this Europen influence was evident in much of his subsequent work.
		He returned to his native city in the mid 1850's and due to the influence of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute - whose portrait is considered one of Ramsay's finest works - Ramsay became Court Painter to George III.
		Ramsay's reputation faded somewhat in the 19th and 20th centuries but he has now regained his place as one of the pre-eminent artists of the 18th century.
	www.visitscotland.com /library/AllanRamsay (155 words)

	AllRefer.com - Allan Ramsay (English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Allan Ramsay, English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biographies
		He compiled several collections of old Scottish poems and songs and is considered an important figure in the revival of Scottish vernacular poetry that culminated in the work of Robert Burns.
		His son, Allan Ramsay, 1713–84, was a noted portrait painter.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Ramsay-A.html (245 words)

	Allan Ramsay, Scottish Painter
		Allan Ramsay, Scottish portrait painter, was the eldest son of the poet Allan Ramsay (1685-1758).
		Though this appointment provided generous and steady income, it brought Ramsay to the decline of his artistic individuality.
		Ramsay’s best paintings however will always be among the supreme achievements of British art.
	www.visitdunkeld.50megs.com /allan-ramsay-painter.htm (191 words)

	Allan Ramsay (1713 - 1784) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Son of famous poet Allan Ramsay, his son of the same name was raised and well educated in his hometown of Edinburgh.
		Nathan Oliveira, Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe porfolio, 1971
		Nathan Oliveira, Untitled from Edgar Allan Poe portfolio, 1971
	www.wwar.com /masters/r/ramsay-allan.html (898 words)

	Biography of Allan Ramsay
		On his return he settled in London where he established himself in the 1740s as a leading portrait painter until this position was taken over by Joshua Reynolds.
		The competition between the two artists led Ramsay to develop a distinctive style of female portraiture epitomized in the delicate and graceful portrait of his second wife (1757, National Gallery, Edinburgh).
		In 1760 Ramsay was appointed Painter in Ordinary to George III and worked mainly on royal commissions, some of which were copies of portraits in the royal collection.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /mag/pages/mnuInDepth/Biography.cfm?biog=66 (258 words)

	Allan Ramsay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was the son of Allan Ramsay, poet, who encouraged his artistic leanings from the age of twelve, until he went to London at twenty to study under William Hogarth.
		The English genius took a liking to Allan and thought so much of him that he dedicated his twelve engravings, illustrative of Butler's Hudibras, to the young Scot.
		In 1736 Ramsay travelled through Europe to Rome, being shipwrecked on the way, near Pisa.
	www.scotlandsource.com /about/ramsay.htm (345 words)

	Poet: Allan Ramsay - All poems of Allan Ramsay
		Poet: Allan Ramsay - All poems of Allan Ramsay
		Free Poetry E-Book: 4 poems of Allan Ramsay
		Allan Ramsay [Scottish Rococo Era Painter, 1713-1784] Guide to pictures of works by Allan Ramsay in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
	www.poemhunter.com /allan-ramsay/poet-3135 (203 words)

	Allan Ramsay
		Wig-maker, bookseller, poet, and father of Allan Ramsay the painter, Allan
		Ramsay senior is best remembered for his pastoral ballad-opera "The Gentle Shepherd" (1725) and his compilations of Scots poems "The Ever Green"
		The Library was later to acquire, among the MSS bequeathed by David Laing, significant numbers of Ramsay's MSS, including drafts of "The Gentle Shepherd" and an anthology of 17th-century verse said to have been used by him when compiling "The Tea-Table Miscellany".
	www.lib.ed.ac.uk /about/bgallery/Gallery/records/seventeen/ramsay.html (202 words)

	Broadside ballad entitled 'Satyr Upon Allan Ramsay'
		Allan Ramsay (1686-1758), poet, song-collector and Edinburgh wig-maker, is today recognised (with Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns) as one of the great vernacular Scots poets of the eighteenth century, and as a vital figure in the revival of Scots poetry after the Reformation of 1560.
		Even in his lifetime Ramsay was an acclaimed and successful writer, yet this poem attacks him for his intention to translate Horace.
		Translation of classical poetry was, in fact, a common task undertaken by eighteenth-century poets, and the influences of Horace and Virgil are clear in much of Ramsay's poetry.
	www.nls.uk /broadsides/broadside.cfm/id/15765 (213 words)

	Allan Ramsay Online
		Allan Ramsay in Commercial Galleries and Auction Houses
		Allan Ramsay in the Web Gallery of Art
		All images and text on this Allan Ramsay page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/ramsay_allan.html (192 words)

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