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" Revd ROBERT WALKER "
( 1755 - 1808 )

' The Skating Minister '

Oil on canvas 30 x 25 inches

 National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Robert Walker was the third son of William Walker,
a Scottish minister who had been translated to Rotterdam in 1760,
and his wife Susanna Sturment, whom he married in 1749.

Robert was born on 30th April 1755 in Monkton in Ayrshire,
where his father was minister.
He was thus five when he was taken to Holland,
where he spent the formative years of his life.

He was subsequently licensed by the presbytery of Edinburgh in 1770,
when he was fifteen ( an early, but not impossible age )
and presented to the church of Cramond, near Edinburgh, by Willielma, Lady Glenorchy.

On 19th August 1784, he was translated to the church of the Canongate in Edinburgh.
Walker had married Jean Fraser, daughter of a solicitor, John Fraser, in 1778,
they had five children.

He became a member of the Royal Company of Archers in 1779 and their chaplain in 1798.

Part of the tradition attached to the portrait is that Walker
is skating on Duddingston Loch,
which lies at the foot of Arthur's Seat,
a plug of a former volcano,
which dominates Edinburgh, just to the east of the city centre.

This painting,
virtually unknown prior to 1949,
when it was purchased by the National Gallery of Scotland,
has become one of the most famous paintings in the world.

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