Interior. View of bedroom door. Digital image of WL 345.

Description Interior. View of bedroom door. Digital image of WL 345.

Date 3/1962

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 766907

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of WL 345

Scope and Content Doorway in 'Bruce Bedchamber', Hopetoun House, West Lothian This shows the ornate moulded and painted door case in the 'Bruce Bedchamber', with a painting above, by the Dutch artist Phillip Tideman who was commissioned by the 1st Earl of Hopetoun in 1703 to paint 37 works on the subject of 'virtue'. The walls are panelled with red silk damask, and a bell pull hangs next to the four poster bed (left) for calling a servant whilst in bed. This room was the 1st Earl's bedchamber, and was part of a suite of three rooms (the other two being a dressing room and a closet). Upon waking, the master of the house would be dressed by his manservant beside a coal fire. This would probably have been lit whilst he was still asleep behind the warm hangings of the four poster bed. Some gentlemen also took breakfast in their bedrooms. Husbands and wives in large houses usually had separate suites of rooms. Hopetoun House, the seat of the Marquis of Linlithgow, was built 1699-1704 to designs by architect Sir William Bruce (c.1630-1710). Between 1721 and 1748 architect William Adam (1689-1748), and his sons Robert (1728-92) and John (1721-92) designed extensions to the central block, flanked by curving colonnades leading to advanced pavilions containing stables (north) and a ballroom (south). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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