Macbeth, King of Scotland (1043-60)  1685

Macbeth is depicted within a painted oval, facing the front, wearing armour, and with a beard and a long moustache. This portrait is one of ninety-three bust-lengths commissioned to decorate the Great Gallery at Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh. It is painted by Jacob de Wet II, a Dutch artist working in Scotland from 1673. Together with eighteen full-lengths these portraits illus...