Portrait of Sir Charles Forbes of Edinglassie, Oil on canvas.
The size of the portrait is 75 cm x 59.5 cm whilst overall the size is 106 cm x 91 cm
In very good condition. There has been some restoration/overpainting etc. There is some minor craquelure.
Housed in a period gilt frame decorated with acorns and leaves, 
Overall a good portrait, circle of a fine Scottish artist , with an interesting sitter, his details below.

sir Charles Forbes of Edinglassie
Sir Charles Forbes, 1st Baronet (1774–1849) was a Scottish politician, of Newe and Edinglassie, Aberdeenshire. Forbes was the son of the Rev. George Forbes of Lochell. He was a descendant of Alexander Forbes of Kinaldie and Pitsligo, and was in 1833 served heir male in general to Alexander Forbes, 3rd lord Forbes of Pitsligo, father of Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo, attainted in 1745.
Forbes was of a bluff but kindly nature, diffident as to his own merits, of a straightforward and manly character. On the death of his uncle in 1821 Forbes succeeded to the entailed estates of the Forbeses of Newe, and was created a baronet by patent in 1823.[1] He married in 1811. His daughter, Elizabeth, married General, Lord James Hay, second son of the seventh Marquess of Tweeddale.

Sir Henry Raeburn FRSE, RA, RSA (1756-1823)
Scottish portrait painter and Scotland's first significant portrait painter
since the Union to remain based in Scotland.
He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland
Raeburn had all the essential qualities of a popular and successful portrait painter.
He was able to produce a telling and forcible likeness;
his work is distinguished by powerful characterisation,
stark realism, dramatic and unusual lighting effects