Proceeds from potential sale of Edmé Bouchardon’s 18th-century sculpture could be used for community projects
In a hunt for ceremonial robes and chains, a dusty chunk of stone propping open the door of a storage shed in Balintore, Easter Ross, was almost overlooked.
But the doorstop turned out to be a marble bust of Sir John Gordon, the 18th-century MP and secretary for Scotland, whose father had given the family name to Invergordon, a small Highland town in Easter Ross. The sculpture was the work of Edmé Bouchardon, a French artist.
