Nasmyth

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Burns, who had died a few years earlier, had only ever agreed to sit for one artist, Alexander Nasmyth in 1787 and that painting became the template for every image.

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"There have been so many copies of the Nasmyth in auctions over the years. I have two or three myself," he said.

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"So there was no reason to think that this was the missing painting - except that I had acquired a letter 20 years before from the man who had the Nasmyth portrait in his possession and who chose Raeburn as the person to produce a new painting, an image of Burns that would endure for the ages."

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That man was Alexander Cunningham, a close friend of Burns who had become a custodian of the Nasmyth painting.

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While he uses the Nasmyth work as his template, his Burns is younger, fresher faced and more vivacious than the original.

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