Sir Walter Scott, detail from Thomas Faed's Sir Walter Scott and his Literary Friends at Abbotsford (1850)

The figure of Scott in Thomas Faed's Sir Walter Scott and his Literary Friends at Abbotsford is clearly derived from an unfinished portrait of Scott painted by Sir John Watson Gordon in 1830 or 1831. The image above is from an undated photographic reproduction of Faed's painting in Edinburgh University Library's Corson Collection. Click here to see the complete painting. The figure to Scott's left is the novelist Henry Mackenzie.