MACGILL (MODERN) ANCIENT The painting depicts the subject

The painting depicts the subject in a coat and plaid in the Black Watch tartan

lives in Florida

Lord of the Isles sett

The Sobieski Stuart brothers who published the Vestiarium claimed to be the heirs to a manuscript once in the hands of Prince Charles Edward Stuart himself but the original was never produced for public examination

which was burned down by the Maxwells in 1593

MACGILL (MODERN) ANCIENT The painting depicts the subjectThe family tartan, which originated with the MacGills of Jura, was in use before 1745 but when tartan was proscribed the sett seemed to have been lost until a piece was discovered in Kintyre and placed in the Museum of Antiquities (now incorporated into the National Museum of Scotland in Chambers St., Edinburgh). The current version, which first appeared in 1930, is known as the MacGill Society tartan.