George Heriot

George Heriot (1759-1839), a Scot, is best known as a skilled landscape watercolourist and as the contentious deputy   postmaster general of British North America from 1800 to 1816. He was also a travel writer (his Travels through the Canadas was published in 1807) and a poet. In this volume, a combination of biography and art history, Gerald Finley presents, for the first time, a rounded picture of Heriot, revealing his motives and ideals while also illuminating the texture of life in