James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale

Despite his aristocratic birth, the Earl of Lauderdale became a fervent supporter of the French Revolution, following a visit to Paris in 1792. He became the leader of the opposition Whig party in Scotland, and was nicknamed 'Citizen Maitland'. He co-founded the Society of the Friends of the People in Scotland, a radical, reformist political group and wrote the highly influential 'Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Public Wealth' (1804). He later abandoned his Whig convictions and became a Tory. In this bust, Lauderdale's fashionable 'Brutus' hairstyle references Roman and Greek sculpture, and was worn by men wanting to associate themselves with the ethos of democracy and reform.劳德代尔伯爵虽出身贵族，却在1792年游历巴黎之后，成为法国大革命的热忱拥护者。他出任苏格兰反对党辉格党领袖，并获"公民梅特兰"的绰号。他联合创立了苏格兰人民之友协会——一个激进的改革主义政治团体，并撰写了极具影响力的《论公共财富的性质与起源》（1804年）。其后他背弃了辉格党信念，转而成为托利党人。在这件半身像中，劳德代尔所留的时髦"布鲁图斯式"发型致敬了罗马与希腊雕塑，这种发型曾为那些希望彰显自身契合民主与改革精神的男性所采用。