Kenneth Mackenzie (1635–1678), 3rd Earl of Seaforth

Image credit: Fortrose Town Hall

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The sitter, a giant of a man, was known as Coinneach Mhor (Big Kennie). Though he must have been little more than a youth, he took up arms for Charles II and carried on a species of 'resistance' in Lewis and the West from 1652 to 1654 until forced to give up. For reasons not yet explained he was later arrested by Cromwell and kept in intermittent captivity in the Citadel of Inverness until the restoration of Charles II in 1660. He became Sheriff of Ross and later a Privy Councillor.

Fortrose Town Hall

Fortrose

Title

Kenneth Mackenzie (1635–1678), 3rd Earl of Seaforth

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 119.4 x W 99 cm

Accession number

2

Acquisition method

gift to the Town Council of Fortrose from Madeleine, Countess of Midleton, 1952

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

KENNETH/3 E. SEAFORTH died 1678

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