Henry Macbeth-Raeburn (born Henry Raeburn Macbeth; 24 September 1860 – 3 December 1947) was a Scottish painter and printmaker. His father was the portrait painter
Norman Macbeth
Norman Macbeth (1821 in Greenock – 27 February 1888 in London) was a Scottish portraitist.
Life
He was born at Greenock, where his father James Macbeth was an excise official. He served a seven years' apprenticeship as an engraver in Glasg ...
and his niece
Ann Macbeth
Ann Macbeth (25 September 1875 – 23 March 1948) was a British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author. She was a member of the Glasgow Movement where she was an associate of Margaret MacDonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and many ...
. His elder brothers James Macbeth (1847–1891) and
Robert Walker Macbeth
Robert Walker Macbeth (30 September 1848 – 1 November 1910) was a Scottish painter, etcher and watercolourist, specialising in pastoral, pastoral landscape and the rustic genre. His father was a portrait painter named Norman Macbeth and his ...
, (1848–1910) were also artists.
Life
He was named after the Scottish portraitist
Henry Raeburn
Sir Henry Raeburn (; 4 March 1756 – 8 July 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland.
Biography
Raeburn was born the son of a manufacturer in Stockbridge, on the Water of Leith: a f ...
, and in later life he changed his surname in devotion to the celebrated portraitist. It was also an advantage to distinguish himself from the many members of his artistic family. Macbeth-Raeburn exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1881 onwards, and was elected ARA in 1922 and full member in 1933. His diploma work, from 1921, was a mezzotint after
Raeburn's 1793 portrait of Dr. Nathaniel Spens.
He married Isabelle Elizabeth McOscar, and they had one daughter, Rita Macbeth-Raeburn, who was depicted in a portrait by her uncle Robert Walker Macbeth shown at the Royal Academy in 1905. Isabelle died in 1929, and in 1936 Macbeth-Raeburn married secondly the artist
Marjorie May Bacon
Marjorie May Bacon, later Marjorie Macbeth-Raeburn (6 January 1902 – 9 February 1988) was a British printmaker and painter.
Biography
Bacon was born in Ipswich and lived in Great Yarmouth as a child. Bacon attended Yarmouth Art School f ...
, who at the time was aged 34. Shortly afterwards the couple moved to
Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth ( ), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside resort, seaside town which gives its name to the wider Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located east of Norwich. Its fishing industry, m ...
.
Macbeth-Raeburn died on 3 December 1947 in Great Yarmouth, the bride's home town.
['Obituary', '']The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its si ...
'', 9 December 1947, p. 7.
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Scottish artists
1860 births
1947 deaths
Royal Academicians
British printmakers
Scottish etchers
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