SIR HENRY RAEBURN (SCOTTISH 1756 - 1823) THOMAS WISE OF HILLBANK, FORFARSHIRE

oil on canvas framed image size 75cm x 63cm, overall size 95cm x 82cm Provenance: Private Collection, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, by descent; Philip Mould Historical Portraits Ltd., London, with their label verso; Christies June 2005, British Pictures 1500-1850. Note: Thomas Wise (d.1819), of Hillbank, who was the son of David Wise of Lunan, Forfarshire, was a physician. He is recorded as having lived for a time in Jamaica, where he acquired the estate of Claremont, in the parish of Hanover. He purchased Hillbank, near Dundee, on his return from Jamaica. He married Anne, daughter of William Chalmers of Glenericht, Perthshire in 1795 with whom he had several children, one of whom, Thomas, was a physician in the service of the East India Company, and another son, Patrick, became a magistrate in Bengal.