Mary, Queen of Scots
by HAUDEBOURT-LESCOT, Hortense, Watercolour on paper, 41 x 32 cm
This painting was probably inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s The Abbot which vividly depicted the enmity between Mary, Queen of Scots and Margaret Erskine, Lady Lochleven, the mother of James Stuart, Mary’s illegitimate half-brother who claimed the throne as Regent during Mary’s imprisonment.