William Aikman (1682 – 1731) 

• Was a Scottish portrait painter.
• Aikman was the son of William Aikman, of Cairney.
• Aikman, having pursued his studies for some time in Britain, found that to complete them it would be necessary to go into Italy.
• In 1707, he went to Italy, and having resided chiefly at Rome for three years.
• Aikman had a personal library of some significance in which he used an engraved armorial bookplate.
• Towards the close of his life, he painted many other pictures of people of the first rank and fashion in England.
• At Blickling in Norfolk, the seat of Hobart Earl of Buckinghamshire, are a great many full-length pictures by Aikman.
• He died on 7th June 1731.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: William Aikman, Self-portrait, about 1711 - 1715.
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