Statue of Niel Gow, Fiddler, Dunkeld

We’ve been to Dunkeld many times but had never noticed this statue before last November. Mind you it’s on the Birnam side of the River Tay which we don’t often frequent. It also seems to have been commissioned reasonably recently.

Statue of Fiddler Niel Gow, Dunkeld

Information plaque:-

Plaque by Statue of Fiddler Niel Gow, Dunkeld

Gow was apparently the most famous Scottish fiddler of the eighteenth century.

He was even painted by Sir Henry Raeburn:-

Niel Gow by Henry Raeburn

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