Gordon, Sir John Watson, a portrait-painter, born in Edinburgh; was a pupil of Raeburn's, and his successor as a painter of portraits; executed portraits of most of the eminent Scotchmen of his time, and among the number Sir Walter Scott, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Cockburn, Dr. Chalmers, and Professor Wilson (1788‒1864).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Gordon, Lord George * Gore, Charles