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| Benedetto Gennari Elizabeth Murray, Duchess of Lauderdale (Jacobite courtier) ca. 1679 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| David Paton John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee (Jacobite courtier) ca. 1670 ink on paper, miniature format National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Nicolas de Largillière Prince James Francis Edward Stuart ('Old Pretender') (son and heir of King James II in exile) 1691 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
"The birth of Prince James Francis Edward, son of King James II and his second wife Mary of Modena, was highly controversial, as it was assumed that the king and queen could not produce healthy children. The birth of a male heir to the Catholic King of Britain increased the growing opposition of Protestants, who had wanted to see the king's oldest daughter Mary, a Protestant, ascend the throne. They claimed that the real prince had died at birth and had been substituted. The 1688 Revolution subsequently saw Mary and her husband, the Protestant William of Orange, claim the British throne, forcing the Stuarts to flee to France. In this context, this portrait of the luxuriantly draped child should be seen as part of the counter-propaganda of the exiled Stuart family."
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| Francesco Trevisani Prince James Francis Edward Stuart ('Old Pretender') (son and heir of King James II in exile) 1720 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Richard Waitt Kenneth Sutherland, 3rd Lord Duffus, in hunting dress (Jacobite leader) ca. 1712 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Pierre Parrocel George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal (Jacobite leader) ca. 1716 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Richard Cooper the Elder Caricature of Prince Charles Edward Stuart ('Young Pretender') (grandson and heir of King James II) 1745 hand-colored etching National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Richard Wilson Flora Macdonald (Jacobite heroine) 1747 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
"The famous Jacobite heroine Flora Macdonald lived on South Uist, in the Outer Hebrides. In 1746, on the neighbouring island of Benbecula she met Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, in flight after the disastrous defeat at Culloden. She helped the Prince escape by boat to Skye, disguising him as her maidservant. She was arrested for her part in assisting him and taken prisoner to London. After her release in 1747 [in a general amnesty], she commissioned this portrait, which she gave to the captain of the ship which had brought her south, in thanks for the kindness he had shown her."
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| Anonymous artist Clementina Walkinshaw (mistress of Prince Charles Edward Stuart) ca. 1740-45 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
"Clementina was named after Clementina Sobieska, the Polish wife of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart. She became the mistress of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender, eldest son of Prince James and Clementina Sobieska) in Scotland during the 1745 Rising, and was reunited with him in Ghent in 1752. However, she was mistrusted by many Jacobite supporters, who suspected her of being a spy for the Hanoverian government. Charles's father also disapproved of her, feeling that his son should marry and produce legitimate heirs. The relationship endured for a few years, but Clementina was eventually unable to tolerate Charles's temper and beatings. In 1760 she fled to a convent, taking their only daughter, Charlotte, with her."
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| Domenico Dupra Dr John Irwin, physician to the Stuarts at Rome (Jacobite supporter) 1739 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Domenico Dupra John Drummond, 4th titular Duke of Perth (Jacobite, shown as member of the Society of Young Gentlemen Travellers in Rome) 1739 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Domenico Dupra Captain William Hay of Edington, in Rome (Jacobite supporter) 1739 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll (anti-Jacobite) 1767 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
"Gainsborough's full-length portrait of the 4th Duke of Argyll shows him in his magnificent peer's robes, a perfect subject for the artist's dazzling brushwork. The Duke rests one hand on his coronet and in the other holds the baton of Hereditary Master of the King's Household. He wears the splendid chain of the Order of the Thistle. He inherited the dukedom when he was sixty-seven, having had a distinguished career as a soldier. In 1745 he defended the west of Scotland against Prince Charles Edward Stuart's forces, and in 1746 succeeded the Duke of Cumberland as commander in Scotland."
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| Robert Adamson and David Octavius Hill Charles Manning Allen, alias 'Charles Edward Stuart' (Jacobite impostor) 1843 calotype print National Galleries of Scotland |
– curator's notes from National Galleries of Scotland