Castle Brodick, on Brodick Bay on the Isle of Arran, was owned by the Dukes of Hamilton. Soon after the marriage of the Marquess of Douglas, son of the 11th Duke, I 1843, they began to build a new wing to the Castle. Queen Victoria saw the Isle of Arran in 1847. In her Journal she wrote: ‘came in sight of the Goat Fell range of mountains, which are very pointed in shape … After passing Holy Island one comes to Brodick Bay, which is beautiful with high hills & a glen, in front of which, surrounded by woods, stands the Castle, which the Douglases are building’. This is a view across the bay. In the distance, under Goatfell, is Brodick Castle. Signed and dated: [J.] Cairns. 1851. Inscribed on the back with the name of the artist and as a view of Goatfell from the opposite side of Brodick Bay.