Old Photograph William Black Scotland

Old photograph of William Black who was born on 13 November 1841 in Glasgow, Scotland. William was born to James Black and his second wife Caroline Conning. He was educated to be a landscape painter, a training that influenced his literary life, and as a writer he became celebrated for the detailed and atmospheric descriptions of landscapes and seascapes in novels such as White Wings and A Yachting Romance. From 1879 until his death on 10 December 1898, he lived at 1 Paston Place, Brighton, England.



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