William Stewart MacGeorge - Edward Atkinson Hornel

William Stewart MacGeorge (1 April 1861 – 9 November 1931) was a Scottish artist associated with the

Kirkcudbright School The Kirkcudbright Artists’ Colony was an artists’ community that existed approximately between 1880 and 1980 in Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway. The town attracted many of the country’s leading artists such as Edward Atkinson Hornel, ...

. Born in

Castle Douglas Castle Douglas () is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It lies in the lieutenancy area of Kirkcudbrightshire, in the eastern part of Galloway, between the towns of Dalbeattie and Gatehouse of Fleet. It is in the ecclesiastical paris ...

, lived at 120 King St. He attended the Royal Institution Art School in Edinburgh before studying under

Charles Verlat Charles Verlat or Karel Verlat (25 November 182423 October 1890) was a Belgian painter, watercolorist, engraver (printmaker), art educator and director of the Antwerp Academy. He painted many subjects and was particularly known as an animalier ...

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. After becoming influenced by

Edward Atkinson Hornel Edward Atkinson Hornel (17 July 1864 – 30 June 1933) was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flowers, and foliage, with children. He was a cousin of James Hornell. His contemporaries in the Glasgow Boys called him Ned Hornel. Biography Hornel w ...

, who had also studied under Verlat, MacGeorge began using brighter colours. William Stewart MacGeorge later married the widow of

Hugh Munro Sir Hugh Thomas Munro, 4th Baronet (16 October 1856 – 19 March 1919), was a British mountaineer best known for his list of mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m), known as Munros. Born in London, Munro was the fifth child of ...

and settling in Gifford in

East Lothian East Lothian (; ; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a Counties of Scotland, historic county, registration county and Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921. In ...

where he died.Biography of & artworks by William Stewart Macgeorge at the Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries, Scotland
virtual representation of the Gracefield Arts Centre's Permanent Collection at exploreart.co.uk His widow bequeathed about 45 of his paintings to Haddington Town Council. He is fictionalised in the 1907 novel Little Esson, by his boyhood friend S.R. Crockett

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1861 births 1931 deaths 19th-century Scottish painters 20th-century Scottish painters People from Castle Douglas Scottish male painters 19th-century Scottish male artists 20th-century Scottish male artists {{Scotland-painter-stub