Publisher's Synopsis
The portrait of Reverend Robert Walker by Sir Henry Raeburn is world famous. On permanent show in the National Gallery of Scotland, the black-clad minister, skating enigmatically over Edinburgh's Duddingston Loch on a grey and wintry afternoon, is a familiar icon of Scottish culture. This book tells the story behind the painting: including the historical context, the social mores, the sport, the fads and the fashion.