Art Treasures of Kinloch Castle: August 2016

LADY MONICA LILLY BULLOUGH

including the Louis Galliac oil painting, "Fantaisie".
Written from personal on-going research,

free from the licentious and false innuendo of others,

and illustrated from his personal archive by George W. Randall,

co-founder in 1996 and former

Vice-Chairman Kinloch Castle Friends Association.

Portraits by Hugh Goldwin Rivière of Sir George and Lady Bullough

in the Great Hall, Kinloch Castle, respective 40th birthday gifts to each other .

Sir George Bullough, Baronet, 28 February 1870 - 26 July 1939.

Lady Monica Lilly Bullough, 7 April 1869 - 22 May 1967.

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AUTHOR INTRODUCTION :

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H. Rivière 1909.

WHERE IS IT NOW ? !

All unidentified.
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“Leontine Standish from her brother Frederick.”

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PHOTOGRAPHS BELOW TAKEN 10 DECEMBER 2024 BY THE AUTHOR'S SISTER,

Photographs taken 10 December 2024 by the author's sister, Penny Caster.

Reports of the graves destruction in the earthquake of 22 February 2011
were clearly exaggerated !

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Monica's love of dogs, particularly Alsatians,
was shared in due course by her daughter, Hermione.

Hermione, aged twenty-one years old. 1927.

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Their daughter, Hermione, was born on 5^th November 1906.

Hermione Bullough.
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Following the death of Sir George and Lady Bullough's only child, Hermione, Countess of Durham, the Bullough Trustees instructed the inscription below be engraved on a side panel of Lady Bullough's tomb in the Mausoleum.

It reads:

IN MEMORY OF HERMIONE, COUNTESS OF DURHAM

ONLY DAUGHTER OF SIR GEORGE AND LADY BULLOUGH OF RHUM

BORN NOVEMBER 5 1900*

DIED OCTOBER 28 1990.

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Both photographs very much enlarged from original.

Lady Bullough loved roses, this specimen was grown from seeds gathered from a rose hip in Kinloch Castle Rose Garden in 1997 by Dr. Rosalind Randall.

The scent is strong and amazing, the shrub flourishes today in the author's garden.

A three-fold wooden screen measuring 81 x 46½ inches overall containing

twelve prints of important historical personages in the lineage of Lady Bullough,

each mounted behind glass.

The Screen is the work of Lady Bullough; in her Somerford Manor journal she traces

her maternal ancestry back to King Edward I ...

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'Fantaisie' by Louis Galliac.

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FANTAISIE BY LOUIS GALLIAC

Louis Galliac (1849 – 1934)

First hand research -

NOT based on the scurrilous and salacious innuendo of others!

Text and illustrations by George W. Randall.

This work by Louis Galliac titled “Woman taking coffee” is listed in the

1883 Paris Salon Catalogue of original drawings by the artists and titled “Fantaisie”.

The ornate, gilded framed portrait hangs
between the bedrooms of Sir George and
Lady Bullough on the first floor south corridor of Kinloch Castle.

Signed by the artist in the lower left corner the oil on canvas measures
44 x 51 inches (108 x 124 cms.).
Louis Galliac was born at Dijon, France on 25 August 1849.
He was a prolific artist and today his works are much sought after.
He died in Paris in 1934.

The drawing above

is titled

‘Fantaisie’

by Louis Galliac.

It was published in

the Catalogue illustré

de Peinture et Sculpture

Salon de 1897

by the

Société Nationale

des Beaux-Arts

Exposition.

Catalogue des Ouvrages Exposés au Palais des Champs-Élysées le

20 Avril 1897

689 GALLIAC (L) H.C. rue Turgot 3 “FANTAISIE”

An illustrated catalogue of the original works by artists displayed at the Exposition des Beaux-Arts with an alphabetical list of their names followed by circa 380 black and white reproductions.
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