Art Treasures of Kinloch Castle

KINLOCH CASTLE, ISLE OF RUM, SCOTLAND
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East façade of Kinloch Castle.

FIRST A BRIEF BACKGROUND TO THE TREASURES:

SY Rhouma I.

George Bullough’s lifestyle was lavish.

Between 1895 and 1919 he successively owned two magnificent ocean-going steam yachts and was a member of the Royal Clyde and the Royal Bombay Yacht Clubs. In 1897 he commissioned construction of Kinloch Castle furnishing his island home with an amazing assortment of contents, many collected during his three year world tour, 1892-1895, recorded in twenty leather bound albums containing over seven hundred photographs.

Over three hundred oil, watercolour and fine engravings adorn the Castle walls while the library shelves hold over 1,100 volumes, including three Game Books –

which, commencing 1866, provide a sporting year social record of the island’s

sporting guests, the successful ones only of course!

Ballymacad by Laveno.

A life time member of the Jockey Club, between 1910 and his death in 1939,

Sir George Bullough, owned over one hundred and fifty racehorses,

the most well-known being steeplechaser Ballymacad,

winner of the 1917 War Grand National held at Gatwick, (Sir George gave his winnings to St. Dunstan’s Hostel for Blind Soldiers and Sailors), and flat-race Golden Myth, winner of the Ascot Gold Cup and Gold Vase in 1922,

the third time the same horse won both in the same year to 1922.

Sir George died unexpectedly while playing golf in France in 1939 to be survived by his wife of thirty-six years Lady Monica and their daughter, Hermione.

In 1957, for the nominal sum of £23,000, (£12,000
less than her father-in-law paid for the island
75 years previously), Lady Bullough sold the island of Rum to the British Government
for use in perpetuity as a nature reserve. The sale included Kinloch Castle, which remains to this day a fully furnished time capsule of the Edwardian Era.

The Castle’s remote island location and it remaining in Bullough ownership until 1957 meant it was not stripped of its contents and demolished like so many comparable properties on the mainland following the enormous social and economic changes brought about by two world wars.

The purpose of my blog is to bring into the public domain the results of thirty years of personal and on-going research into this unique treasure house

and the Bullough family.

NOTE: The painting of SY Rhouma was stolen in 2023 and has yet to be recovered.

Here is an Illustrated Summary of my

ART TREASURES AT KINLOCH CASTLE Blog Posts:

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Art Treasures of Kinloch Castle

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THE GRAND NATIONAL 1892 – THE CANAL TURN – BY G. D. GILES

HE GRAND NATIONAL 1892 – THE CANAL TURN – BY G. D. GILES

Won by seven year old Father O’Flynn ridden by Captain Roddy Owen at 10/1 by twenty lengths. 2^nd Closter ridden by John Cottrell-Dormer, 3^rd Llex ridden by Arthur Nightingale.

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/5547070030481605930

JAPANESE LIFE-SIZE IVORY EAGLE

Steller's Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus)

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/6873241512882600280

Major Edward Topham and the

Wold Cottage Meteorite of 1795.

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/3302896063917143485

GRAND NATIONAL 1917

The Great War Years 1916 - 1918

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/4414384046630593686

BALLYMACAD

Celebrating the Centenary of his life and winning

The “WAR (GRAND) NATIONAL”

at Gatwick 21 March 1917

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/3383488373276029339

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S. Y. RHOUMA I & RHOUMA II

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/5755713141296297193

SALT LAKE CITY AND MORMONISM

THE CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS IN THE 1890's

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/4380339021258083700

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KINLOCH CASTLE - DEMOLITION ?

Kinloch Castle at the head of the Isle of Rum's only sea loch, Loch Scresort,
painted by Byron Cooper circa. 1900.

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/495835395813904996

Imhof & Mukle, Vöhrenbach, Germany, Orchestrion

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/3128091634268634253

H. M. King James VI - van Somer

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/5107433756200696044

Mary Queen of Scots with James VI as a child

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/6496846852779978807

Art at Risk Cherubs Lighting a Fire
- Giovanni Cipriani, invr. Francesco Bartolozi, sculpt.

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/5005491962458004710

Cupid Firing an Arrow
- oil painting

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/1082281055762052702

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S.S. Wairarapa Wrecked Great Barrier Island, New Zealand
– 12.08 am 30^th October 1874

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/7576032005892464272

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The Sinking of S.S. Austral, Sydney Harbour, Australia
11 November 1882

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/8209975605330607592

Lady Bullough by Louis Galliac
- drinking tea on lion skin rug ?

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/6805775621719057424

Lady Monica Lilly Bullough
- full length oil portrait by Hugh Goldwin Rivière

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/7117255801633707592

Oil Paintings at Risk George Bullough
- oil by Hugh Goldwin Rivière

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/2348269293903357614

Oil Paintings at Risk John Bullough
- father of Sir George. Oil by St. George Hare

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/6758930778128617881

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Oil Paintings at Risk James and Martha Bullough
–paternal grandparents of Sir George Bullough

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/3874890701837737442

Two Putti with Flowers
- oil fauxtondo

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/7727238478511647111

Chinese Satsuma & Oak Mantel Clock
- Incense burner

18^th Century Lantern Clock by William Jackson, London
- Thirty hour cased clock

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/3292252169994232253

Thomas Turner, London 19^th Century German Cased Clock
– Oak cased clock

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/8353364730454587020

Japanese Bronze Study of an Eagle on Hardwood Stand
- by Miyao Eisuke, Yokohama Miyao Company

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/855390779829171173

Japanese, Burmese & Indian Artifacts

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/1183230397144008342

Japanese Black Lacquer Panels and Native Tribal Weaponry

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/3958655570427720074

S T O L E N

Treasures from Kinloch Castle
- Moorish style pearl framed mirror, Boer War Shell,

Buddha from Japanese Shrine.

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https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/7745784161751611682

Kinloch Castle Greenhouse and Palm House Complex
Descriptions and Builders Plans - First-hand and on site research.

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3149945780622106744/1543023427554692901

CARELESSLY DAMAGED TREASURES:

Thomas Howardus Dux et Comes Norfolciæ
– Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk - Damaged Engravings

Lost and Damaged

Art Treasures of Kinloch Castle

ALL BADLY DAMAGED

Unidentified.

Howard and Bullough American Machine Company,
Limited, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Howard & Bullough American Machine Company, Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

The library at Kinloch Castle
- Castle floor plans, book descriptions …

Golden Myth
Winner 1922 Ascot Gold Cup and Gold Vase
- Sir George Bullough’s flat race thoroughbred

Grinling Gibbons’ Limewood Carved Screen
- Reputedly originating Wandsworth Manor House, home of Princess Anne,

later Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1702-1714.

Royal visit.

Lady Bullough 1869-1967
- Wife of Sir George, gifted contents of Kinloch Castle to the Nation in 1957.

Located in the Castle Library

LEFT: Pair of Oni Warriors in full battle dress
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A Cavalry Battle Scene, Life size Ivory Eagle,

The Storming of Buda (Budapest) 1686,

original oil by Flemish artist Pauwels Casteels

Pauwels Casteels The Storming of Buda 1686.

Ivory Eagle Model of Sumo Wrestlers
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Kinloch Castle Isle of Rum, Scotland
- Sectional Greenhouse

The author, George Randall, inside the 300 feet long,
14 section lean-to glasshouse one year before total collapse in 1994.

To quote Sir John Betjeman, British

Poet Laureate 1972-1984:

“In time to come Kinloch Castle will be a place of pilgrimage for all those who want to see how people lived in good King Edward’s days.”