Miss Archibald Ramsay Douglas (23 April 1807 – 23 December 1886) was a Scottish

miniature painter A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolor, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, and were popular among 16th-century eli ...

. She was the daughter of William Douglas.

Life

Douglas was born in

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to William Douglas and his wife in 1807. She was the eldest of three children. Her father was the ''miniature painter in Scotland'' employed by Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Douglas was taught to paint by her father and opened studios in Hart Street in Edinburgh. Douglas exhibited four paintings at the

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in London and nine at the

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from 1834 to 1847.V. Remington, ‘Douglas, William . D.(1780–1832)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
accessed 2 Jan 2017
/ref> Douglas died in Edinburgh in 1886.

References

1807 births 1886 deaths 19th-century Scottish painters 19th-century Scottish women artists Painters from Edinburgh Miniature painting Scottish women painters {{Scotland-painter-stub