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Excerpt from Exhibition of the Royal House of Stuart, 1889 The well-known apocryphal series of the kings of Scotland in the long Gallery at Holyrood Palace (110 in number), was painted in 1684 by a Fleming named James de Witt. His contract with the Government to supply them on canvas in oil colours is still in existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.