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List Of Scottish Artists
This is a list of notable artists born in Scotland and/or well known for their work in Scotland, arranged alphabetically by surname and by period. Born before 1700 *John Alexander (painter), John Alexander (died 1733), painter and engraver *Arnold Bronckhorst (fl. 1565–1583), Dutch people, Dutch painter, the first King's Painter of Scotland *William Gouw Ferguson (1632/3 – c. 1689), still life painter, active in France and Italy *Gawen Hamilton (1698–1737), painter largely working in London *George Heriot (1563–1624), Scottish goldsmith and Jewellery, jeweler *George Jamesone (or Jameson, c. 1587–1644), Scotland's first eminent portrait painter *David Paton (artist), David Paton, active 1660–1700, painter of Portrait miniature, miniatures *François Quesnel (c. 1543–1619), Scotland-born French painter *John Michael Wright (1617–1694), portrait painter in the Baroque style Born 1700–1799 *Cosmo Alexander (c. 1724–1772), noted North American portrait painter *D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Alexander (painter)
John Alexander (1686 – ) was a Scotland, Scottish Painting, painter and engraver of the 18th century. He studied in Italy under Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari. Life Alexander was the son of a doctor from Aberdeen. The painter George Jamesone was his paternal great-grandfather. He spent some time in London before going to Rome in 1711. There he studied under Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, Giuseppe Chiari and received commissions from the exiled Stuart court. Following his return to Scotland in 1720 he was commissioned by the Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon (whom he had probably first met in Italy) to decorate a staircase at Gordon Castle with a painting depicting the Rape of Proserpine. This was based on a work by his master, Chiari, in the Palazzo Barberini.Long 1842–4 Alexander's work at the castle was later destroyed, but his sketch for the work survives in the collection of the National Gallery of Scotland. Many of his clients, including Gordon, were Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Allan (painter)
David Allan (13 February 1744 – 6 August 1796) was a Scottish painter, limner, and illustrator, best known for historical subjects and genre works. Life He was born in Alloa in central Scotland. On leaving Foulis's Academy of painting at Glasgow (1762), after seven years' successful study, he obtained the patronage of Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart and of Erskine of Mar, on whose estate he had been born. In 1764 Erskine made it possible for Allan to travel to Rome. He remained in Italy until 1777, studying under Gavin Hamilton and copying the old masters. In 1771 Allan sent two history paintings, ''Pompey the Great after his Defeat'' and ''Cleopatra Weeping Over the Ashes of Mark Antony'' (both now lost) to the exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In 1773, still in Rome, his ''Hector’s Farewell from Andromache'' won the Accademia di San Luca's gold medal. Among the original works which he then painted was the ''Origin of Painting'', now in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hay (artist)
David Ramsay Hay (March 1798, Edinburgh – 10 September 1866) was a Scottish artist, interior decorator and colour theorist. Life David Ramsay Hay was the son of Rebekah or Rebecca Carmichael, a published poet and friend of Robert Burns. They lived at the foot of Monteith's Close off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. After her husband died prematurely and penniless, David was educated at the expense of her brother, David Ramsay, a banker and owner of the ''Edinburgh Evening Courant'', then apprenticed as a reading-boy in Ramsay's printing office in Edinburgh. Instead though (around 1813), Hay moved to join Gavin Beugo (son of John Beugo) a decorative artist, based on West Register Street in Edinburgh's New Town. His fellow-apprentice was his friend, the topographical artist David Roberts. In April 1820 he commenced work at Abbotsford for Walter Scott. In 1850 he decorated Holyroodhouse for Queen Victoria. In the 1920s, Queen Mary had these decorative schemes painted over, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative arts, decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassicism was born in Rome, largely due to the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann during the rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Its popularity expanded throughout Europe as a generation of European art students finished their Grand Tour and returned from Italy to their home countries with newly rediscovered Greco-Roman ideals. The main Neoclassical movement coincided with the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment, and continued into the early 19th century, eventually competing with Romanticism. In architecture, the style endured throughout the 19th, 20th, and into the 21st century. European Neoclassicism in the visual arts began in opposition to the then-dominant Rococo style. Rococo architecture emphasizes grace, Ornament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Hamilton (artist)
Gavin Hamilton (1723, Lanarkshire – 4 January 1798, Rome) was a Scottish people, Scottish Neoclassicism, neoclassical history painter, who is more widely remembered for his searches for antiquities in the neighbourhood of Rome. These roles in combination made him an arbiter of neoclassical taste. Biography Born in Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1723, he matriculated at the University of Glasgow under the Professor of Humanity at the age of 15.Skinner, Basil C. (1966), ''Scots in Italy in the 18th Century'', National Galleries of Scotland, pp. 14 - 23 By 1744 he was in Italy, and probably studied in Rome in the studio of Agostino Masucci. From 1748 to 1750 he shared an apartment with James Stuart, Matthew Brettingham and Nicholas Revett, and with them visited Naples and Venice. On returning to Britain, he spent several years portrait-painting in London (1751–1756). At the end of that period, he returned to Rome. He lived there for the next four decades, until his death in 1798. Asi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Watson Gordon
Sir John Watson Gordon (1788 – 1 June 1864) was a Scottish Portrait painting, portrait painter and president of the Royal Scottish Academy. Life and work Gordon was born in 1788, in Edinburgh, the eldest son of Captain Watson, R.A., a cadet of the family of Watson of Overmains, in the county of Berwick. He was educated specifically to prepare him for enrolling in the Royal Engineers. He entered as a student in the government school of design, under the management of the Board of Manufactures. he showed a natural aptitude for art, and his father was persuaded to allow him to adopt it as his profession. Captain Watson was himself a skilful draughtsman, and his brother George Watson (painter), George Watson, afterwards president of the Royal Scottish Academy, was a highly respected portrait painter, second only to Henry Raeburn, Sir Henry Raeburn, who was a friend of the family. In 1808, Gordon exhibited a picture "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" at the Lyceum in Nicolson Street, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Geddes (artist)
Andrew Geddes (5 April 17835 May 1844) was a Scottish portrait painter and etcher. Life Geddes was born at 7 St Patrick Street in south Edinburgh. After receiving a Classical education movement, classical education at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, Royal High School and subsequently at the University of Edinburgh, he was employed as a clerk for five years in the excise office, in which his father held the post of deputy auditor. After the death of his father, who had opposed his desire to become an artist, he went to London and entered the Royal Academy schools. His first contribution to the exhibitions of the Royal Academy, a ''St John in the Wilderness'', appeared at Somerset House in 1806, and from that year onwards Geddes was a fairly constant exhibitor of figure-subjects and portraits. His well-known portrait of David Wilkie (artist), David Wilkie, with whom he was on terms of intimacy, was at the Royal Academy in 1816. He alternated for some years between London an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Freebairn
Robert Freebairn (1765 – 23 January 1808 in London) was a British landscape painter. Life Freebairn was born in 1765, apparently of Scottish descent, and is usually stated to have been the last pupil of Richard Wilson, R.A. This does not seem certain, as Freebairn was articled to Philip Reinagle, R.A., and it was from Reinagle's house that he sent his first picture to the Royal Academy in 1782, the year of Wilson's death. He continued to exhibit landscapes up to 1786, when he appears to have gone to Italy. In 1789 and 1790 he was at Rome, and sent views of Roman scenery to the academy. In 1791 he sent two views of the "Viamala" in the Grisons, probably taken on his return journey. His stay in Italy formed his style, and he brought back to England a storehouse of material, on which he drew plentifully during the remainder of his life, his productions being mainly representations of Italian scenery.''Dictionary of National Biography'' 1885–1900. When in Italy he was patronise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Edmonstone
Robert Edmonstone RSA (1794–1834), was a Scottish artist. Life Edmonstone, was born at Kelso in 1794, the son of James and Catherine Edmonstone.Details from parents grave He was initially apprenticed to a watchmaker. He showed a taste for painting at an early age, and when his family came to Edinburgh, his drawings attracted much attention: he was patronised by Sir Abraham Hume, and settled in London about 1819. He first exhibited some portraits at the Royal Academy in 1818. After attending George Henry Harlow's studio he was admitted to the Royal Academy school, and subsequently travelled in Italy. Between 1824 and 1829 he was mainly painting portraits in London. In 1830 Edmonstone exhibited ''Italian Boys playing at Cards''. He paid a second visit to Italy in 1831–2, and painted ''Venetian Carriers'' and the ''Ceremony of Kissing the Chains of St. Peter'', which was exhibited at the British Institution in 1833. Fifty-eight pictures by Edmonstone were in all exhibited at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Carse
Alexander Carse (c. 1770 – February 1843) was a Scottish painter known for his scenes of Scottish life. His works include a large canvas of Visit of King George IV to Scotland, George IV's visit to Leith and three early paintings of football matches. Life Carse was born in Innerwick in East Lothian to William and Catherine Carse, and was baptised early in 1770. Carse started at the Trustees Drawing Academy of Edinburgh in 1801; here he studied Dutch School (painting), Dutch painting, which influenced his later representations of interiors. He was taught by David Allan (painter), David Allan, who was a strong influence on his early style. By 1808 he was described as the best painter of village scenes by the Scottish antiquarian the David Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, 11th Earl of Buchan. In 1795 Carse painted a group portrait of himself and what are believed to be his mother and sister. The painting shows a painter's room, with his mother reading the Bible to her two childre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Campbell (sculptor)
Thomas Campbell (1 May 1790 – 4 February 1858) was a Scottish sculptor in the early 19th century. He has several important public works, most notably a statue of Sarah Siddons in Westminster Abbey. He also has several works in the National Gallery in London. He was heavily patronised by the British aristocracy, as evidenced by his works. Life He was born in Tolbooth parish, Edinburgh Old Town, now part of the Royal Mile. He was the son of Douglas Campbell, "gentleman servant", and Helen Thorburn. He was apprenticed to John Marshall, marble cutter on Leith Walk. During his apprenticeship he befriended James Locke (draper), James Locke, later to be credited with the naming ''Tweed''. Whilst at Marshall's, over three years, he sculpted two figures for the facade of the Royal Bank of Scotland, which around 1817 attracted the patronage of Gilbert Innes of Stow of Wedale, Stow, depute governor of the Bank. He paid for Campbell to study at the Royal Academy Schools in London fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brown (artist)
John Brown (1752 – September 5, 1787) was a Scottish artist. Biography John Brown was born around 1752, in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of a watchmaker. He studied in Edinburgh at the Trustees' Academy."Brown, John (ii)", Oxford Art Online Around 1769 he traveled to Rome, where he became a pupil of Alexander Runciman. They became strong friends. For the next eleven years he lived in Rome. In Italy and Sicily he made sketches of the ruins of ancient buildings for his Scottish patrons, William Townley and Sir William Young, and sent drawings to the Royal Academy. Brown worked on a small scale and favoured pencil, pen and ink wash, wash as his media. Notable among his drawings are a number of genre works, genre scenes, such as ''Two Men in Conversation'' (c. 1775–80; Courtauld Institute, London), which show the influence of Henry Fuseli, with whom Brown was friendly. In 1780 Brown returned to Scotland, and over the next several years drew many portraits of dignitaries, inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
