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White House copy of the 1826 painting

A portrait of William MacGillivray, Professor of Civil and Natural History at Aberdeen's Marischal College in the early 1800s.

Following his walk to London to visit the British Museum in 1819, MacGillivray travelled there again in 1833 to visit the museums and natural history collections. He took an interest in how specimens were displayed, sketching mounted birds at the…