David Ramsay Hay

David Ramsay Hay FRSE (March 1798, Edinburgh – 10 September 1866) was a Scottish artist, interior decorator and colour theorist.

David Ramsay Hay was the son of Rebekah or Rebecca Carmichael, a published poet and friend of Robert Burns.

In the 1920s, Queen Mary had these decorative schemes painted over, but watercolours commissioned by Victoria in 1863 give some idea of their appearance.

[9] Hay wrote about his experience decorating Abbotsford for Walter Scott in the sixth edition of his Harmonious Colouring.

[10] In his final years he had exclusive premises at 90 George Street in the centre of Edinburgh's New Town.