A watercolour depicting five men racing, wearing kilts with bare legs, and a crowd beyond them. Signed in pencil at lower right: Lundgren del. 

On 22 September 1859 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert hosted a fête at Balmoral Castle, their home in the Highlands. Games were held, for which the Queen gave out prizes, followed by dancing. Victoria recorded in her journal entry for that day that they were 'much pleased at all having gone off so well'. She described the race as a 'pretty wild sight' and thought that the men 'looked cold with their bare legs & nothing on but their shirts & kilts'.

Lungren was a Swedish artist who worked for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert from 1854 onwards, painting many watercolours of theatrical scenes for them, acting as an artist in residence at Balmoral in the autumn of 1859 and executing a number of commissions depicting family events, including the wedding of the Princess Royal (RCIN 919928) and the christening of Princess Beatrice (RCIN 919914). While at Balmoral he saw the Queen frequently, and found her 'always most Charmingly gracious'. The Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, holds a large group of Lundgren's drawings which includes four made during this event.