Library
The library tells the story of the arrival at Shambellie of
Charles Stewart, who donated his costume collection to National
Museums Scotland in 1977 and loaned Shambellie House to be used as
a Museum of Costume.
Charles Stewart came to live with his aunt
and uncle on the Shambellie Estate in 1918 at the age of three. A
portrait of Charles’s uncle, Captain William Stewart (1879 -1930),
hangs over the fireplace. It was commissioned from David Alison in
about 1913.
The library bookcase was made for this room
from pine taken from the Shambellie estate; the glazed doors were
added in 1982. On either side of the fireplace are portraits of
William Craik of Arbigland, by an unknown artist and his wife
Elizabeth Stewart of Shambellie, by William de Nune, painted in the
1740s.