The Rest Is History

Greatest Paintings: Age of Enlightenment - Raeburn's Skating Minister

February 18, 2026·6 min·4-min readnarrativehistory
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This episode of The Rest is History explores Henry Raeburn’s iconic 1795 painting The Skating Minister, unpacking how it encapsulates the cultural duality of late 18th-century Scotland — the rationality of the Enlightenment clashing with the emotion of Romanticism — all through the le

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Laura Cumming

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