Among the recent additions to the Louvre collection is the excellent
life-size portrait of _Captain Robert Hay of Spot_, by Sir Henry
Raeburn (1756-1823), which still hangs on a screen in Gallery XV. and
has not yet been provided with a number. It is a full-length portrait
of the sitter, in uniform of scarlet coat, white breeches, black
gaiters, and fur busby, his hand resting upon his gun, standing against
a conventional landscape background with a sky of characteristic tawny
hue. The picture was formerly in the collection of Mr. Sanderson, at
the sale of which, in 1908, it was bought by Messrs. Agnew for 650 gs.
To Raeburn are also ascribed the extremely puzzling _Portrait of an Old
Sailor_ (No. 1817), which, in spite of certain technical affinities
with the British eighteenth-century school, is so un-English in spirit
that it would be rash to ascribe it to any master of that school; the
negligeable _Portrait of Anna Moore, Authoress_ (No. 1817A); also the
utterly commonplace and wretchedly drawn _Mrs. Maconochie and Child_
(No. 1817B), which was bought in 1904, together with the equally
questionable _Portrait of a Lady and a Young Boy_ (No. 1812B), by
Hoppner, for £4000.