that hangs in the Museum of the Grand Lodge of Scottish Freemasonry in Edinburgh's George Street. [Robert] Burns is standing before the assembled Brethren of the Lodge, Cannongate Kilwinning, on the night of the 1 March 1787, when he was invested as the Bard of Scottish Craft Freemasonry. The picture itself was not painted until 50 years after the supposed "investiture" but was not entirely an invention. In deciding who to include, the artist and the Grand Lodge had made use of the Lodge minutes for that particular night and other meetings, many of which Burns had attended. Sixty men, other than Burns, are shown; all real people, all Freemasons and all with a connection with Burns.
from Scotland on Sunday: 'Today Robert Burns might have been in Barlinnie Prison writing his jail diaries'
then The Guardian: Poor Robert Burns. He deserves better than this
then The Scotsman: 'Tam O'Shanter' voted best Robert Burns poem
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