Robert ‘Rabbie’ Burns

Description

A limited edition (of 100) giclée print (375 x 297mm) from the original 30″ x 24″ oil painting of Robert ‘Rabbie’ Burns. The painting is entitled ‘“Gie me ae spark o’ nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire” – taken from the Epistle to J Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard 1785. This new portrait of Robert Burns forms part of a new exhibition of 12 portraits under the theme of ‘Poets, Saints & Rebels’. The portraits are of a poet, a saint and a rebel of each of the four countries of Great Britain and Ireland. Scotland is represented by Robert Burns, Saint Andrew and Robert The Bruce. The painting shows Burns in the Tarbolton Bachelor’s Club with his beloved collie, Luath, immortalised in ‘Twa Dogs’.

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About Robert Burns

Robert ‘Rabbie’ Burns is heralded as Scotland’s national poet. Born in
1759 in Alloway, like his father he was a tenant farmer and in later years an excise collector in Dumfries, where he died in 1796, aged 37.
His poetry celebrated aspects of farm life, traditional culture, class distinctions, and religious practice. His humble background made him a spokesperson for every Scot, especially the poor and disenfranchised. His song ‘For A’ That and A’ That’ resoundingly affirms the humanity of the honest, hard-working, poor man.
Burn helped to preserve a Scottish identity virtually muzzled by political change in the 17th and 18th centuries. The tenet of ‘thinking in English but feeling in Scots’ still holds true and the pleasure of reunion, of shared memory, is forever expressed in the immortal chorus of ‘Auld Lang Syne’.

Scotland’s most loved poet is celebrated worldwide on his birthday 25th January –  known as ‘Burns Night’ (Scots: Burns Nicht; Scottish Gaelic: Oidhche na Taigeise).