John Sawers (painter)

John Sawers, elder, was made a burgess of Edinburgh in November 1591, allowing him to practise the craft of painting in the city.

[4] In 1617, John Sawers, younger, was one of the painters working at Edinburgh Castle to make it ready for the return visit of James VI and I.

[5] In 1631, he decorated the new balcony rooms at Moray House in the Canongate, recently completed by the mason William Wallace and the plasterer John White for Mary Sutton, Countess of Home.

[6] Stacie, originally from Nottingham, bought an armorial manuscript compiled by John Sawers from his widow in 1654, (now National Library of Scotland Adv.

[7] Sawers decorated the ceiling of the new building for the Parliament of Scotland, gilding and colouring the pendant knops which can still be seen today.