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Robert Sholto Johnstone Douglas (3 December 1871 – 10 March 1958), known as Sholto Douglas, or more formally as Sholto Johnstone Douglas, was a Scottish figurative artist, a painter chiefly of portraits and landscapes. In 1895, he stood surety for the bail of Oscar Wilde. ==Early life== Douglas was born in Edinburgh, a member of the aristocratic Queensberry family, part of the Clan Douglas. He was the son of A. H. Johnstone Douglas DL JP of Lockerbie (1846–1923) and his wife Jane Maitland Stewart, and the grandson of Robert Johnstone Douglas of Lockerbie, himself the son of Henry Alexander Douglas, a brother of the sixth and seventh Marquesses of Queensberry. His paternal grandmother, Lady Jane Douglas (1811–1881), was herself a daughter of Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry, so she was her husband's first cousin. Douglas's third cousin and contemporary John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (1844–1900) was famous for the rules of the sport of boxing. Another cousin was Lady Florence Dixie, the war correspondent and big game hunter.〔, accessed 22 January 2008〕〔(Sholto Johnstone Douglas ) at panvertu.com, accessed 22 January 2008〕〔Burke, Bernard, & Townend, Peter, ''Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry'' v. 2 (Burke's Peerage, 1972), p. 260〕 Douglas studied art in London, at the Slade School of Fine Art and also in Paris and Antwerp.〔 Douglas's cousin Lord Alfred Douglas, or 'Bosie', was a close friend of the writer Oscar Wilde. When Wilde sued Bosie's father for libel when accused of "posing as a somdomite" (''sic''), this led to Wilde's downfall and imprisonment.〔Ellman, Richard, ''Oscar Wilde'' (Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, ISBN 978-0-394-55484-6)〕 In 1895, when during his trial Wilde was released on bail, Sholto Johnstone Douglas stood surety for £500 of the bail money.〔Borland, Maureen, ''Wilde's Devoted Friend: A Life of Robert Ross, 1869-1918'' (Lennard Publishing, 1990) (p. 206 ) at books.google.com, accessed 22 January 2009〕 In his ''Noel Coward: A Biography'' (1996), Philip Hoare writes of "...late nineteenth-century enthusiasts of boy-love; writers, artists and Catholic converts inclined to intellectual paedophilia, among them Wilde, Frederick Rolfe, Sholto Douglas and Lord Alfred Douglas."〔Hoare, Philip, ''Noel Coward: A Biography'' (University of Chicago Press, 1996, new edition 1998, ISBN 0-226-34512-2), p. 34〕 Hoare has here confused Sholto Johnstone Douglas with Rolfe's sometime friend Sholto Osborne Gordon Douglas (1873-1934). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sholto Johnstone Douglas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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