Eilean Donan Castle Scotland Original 1950’s Painting Highland Loch Landscape

Eilean Donan Castle Scottish School, mid 1900-1999 signed watercolor on board, framed framed: 26.5 x 22.5 inches painting: 20 x 24 inches private collection, England the painting is in overall very good and sound condition Eilean Donan (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Donnain) is a small tidal island situated at the confluence of three sea lochs (Loch Duich, Loch Long and Loch Alsh) in the western Highlands of Scotland, about 1 kilometre (5⁄8 mi) from the village of Dornie. It is connected to the mainland by a footbridge that was installed early in the 1900-1999 and is dominated by a picturesque castle that frequently appears in photographs, film and television. The island’s original castle was built in the thirteenth century; it became a stronghold of the Clan Mackenzie and their allies, the Clan MacRae. However, in response to the Mackenzies’ involvement in the Jacobite rebellions early in the 1700 – 1799, government ships destroyed the castle in 1719. The present-day castle is Lieutenant-Colonel John Macrae-Gilstrap’s 20th-century reconstruction of the old castle.