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“... Opposite the first page of Lorne Campbell’s Renaissance Portraits is a large colour plate of a pair of young female hands emerging from crisp and translucent white cuffs with black borders. The hands, which clasp soft buff kid gloves against a black satin gown, belong to Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan – or rather to the arresting full-length portrait of her by Holbein reproduced nearby ...”

“... and preparation of the panels, for example, and the tooled gold background), but as essays by Lorne Campbell and Tobias Capwell confirm, the hypothesis that Bermejo visited Flanders is hard to dismiss. Campbell draws attention to Bermejo’s use of compositional schemes developed by Van der Weyden, such as ...”

“... memorialist or seanchaidh, whose stories were edited into a book by the great Gaelic scholar John Lorne Campbell. Her words had gone on buzzing and irking in a corner of my brain. Most sources are agreed that the people left Pabbay and the last two islands in the chain, Mingulay and Berneray, quite freely, in a final despair at the harshness of the ...”

“... the art of it goes beyond them. It is in drawings that you see the first stages of the process. Lorne Campbell’s catalogue essay, ‘The Making of Portraits’, shows that many problems and possibilities remain unaltered.* Sitters always tend to get bored and to complain about not looking pretty enough. Children become restless. Great men and women ...”

“... This little book has tried so hard to keep cool and detached that it ends up cold and flat. John Lorne Campbell’s work is the completion of a lifetime of study and generous devotion, and it is to him that we owe much of our knowledge of Gaelic poetic imagery. Canna was an attractive backwater, owned for long by the impecunious and inconsiderate ...”

“... owner, Lord Strathcona, a former Tory minister, consistently agitated for more steamer calls. John Lorne Campbell, described by Andrew Clark as ‘the ever-whining proprietor of Canna’, more often remembered as a historian and folklorist, was outraged when MacBrayne’s substituted a smaller boat on the service to the Small Isles. Mallaig, the mainland ...”