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Louise Barton was a mortal and the widow of merchant, Richard Barton, from Cabourg in the Basse-Normandie region of France, who supported herself as a portraitist after his death.
Biography[]
In 1660, she was hired by Kristin Gilles to execute a portrait of her protege, Duncan MacLeod, so that she could "gaze upon it forever."
During their weeks together, Louise and MacLeod fell in love, and she lingered over the painting, not only to prolong their time together but because she was never completely happy with the light. Gilles believed she had captured the subject beautifully, but that he need to look "a bit happier." When MacLeod confronted Louise about their feelings for one another, she asked if he loved Gilles, to which he denied and said he loved HER.
MacLeod and Louise Barton
The overly possessive Gilles, however, did not share her toys. When MacLeod was elsewhere, she murdered Louise, drowning her in a pond. Gilles, of course, denied the murder, and MacLeod could prove nothing, but 330 years later, Methos, speaking to MacLeod, insisted that MacLeod knew because he knew what kind of woman Gilles was.
Methos would avenge Louise and the countless people Gilles murdered on that exact day.
Trivia[]
- Beverley Hendry previously played Barbara Madison.