Tour Scotland Photograph Painting By Frederick Clive Newcome

Tour Scotland photograph of a painting by Frederick Clive Newcome who often painted in Scotland. Frederick, born 1847, was an English Landscape painter, chiefly in watercolours. He was christened Frederick Harrison Suker but adopted Newcome to distinguish him from his brother Arthur Suker and father John Suker who were also painters. He studied at the Mount Street School of Art under John Finnie. His earliest sketching ground was at Bettws-y-Coed in Wales, and he afterwards worked in Scotland, Warwickshire, Devonshire and the Lake District in England. The last was his favourite, and in 1880 he made Keswick, Cumbria his headquarters, before moving to Coniston, Lancashire where he died in 1894.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Painting By Sir David Wilkie

Tour Scotland photograph of a painting by Sir David Wilkie, who was born on 18 November 1785 in Cults, Fife, Scotland. He was the son of the parish minister of Cults. He developed a love for art at an early age. In 1799, after he had attended school at Pitlessie, KingsKettle and Cupar, his father reluctantly agreed to his becoming a painter. Through the influence of the Earl of Leven Wilkie was admitted to the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh, and began the study of art under John Graham. In 1804, Wilkie left the Trustees' Academy and returned to Cults. Wilkie was godfather to the son of his fellow Academician William Collins. The boy was named after both men, and achieved fame as the novelist Wilkie Collins. In the autumn of 1840 Wilkie travelled on a voyage to the East. Passing through Holland and Germany, he reached Constantinople, where, while detained by the war in Syria, he painted a portrait of the young sultan. He then sailed for Smyrna and travelled to Jerusalem, where he remained for some five busy weeks. The last work of all upon which he was engaged was a portrait of Mehemet Ali, done at Alexandria. On his return voyage he suffered from an attack of illness at Malta, and remained ill for the remainder of the journey to Gibraltar, eventually dying at sea off Gibraltar, en route to Britain, on the morning of 1 June 1841. His body was consigned to the deep in the Bay of Gibraltar.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Painting By Peter Graham

Tour Scotland photograph of a painting by Peter Graham, who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He trained at the Trustees' Academy in that city under Robert Scott Lauder. He at first studied figure subjects, then from 1859 he began to explore landscape painting after finding inspiration on holiday in Deeside. His landscape paintings were large scale and captured the grandeur of nature. His response to the landscape was influenced the poetry of Sir Walter Scott. He enjoyed great success at the Royal Scottish Academy and at the Royal Academy, London, England, where he was elected RA in 1881 and Senior RA in 1919. He died in 1921.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Painting By James Campbell Noble

Tour Scotland photograph of a painting by James Campbell Noble, who was born on 22 July 1845 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the son of James Noble and Rachel Campbell. Three of his cousins were also artists: Robert Noble, born 1857, died 1917, James Inglis Noble, born 1853, died 1912, and David Noble, born 1865, died 1890. He initially studied at the board of manufacturing in Edinburgh and then the Royal Scottish Academy schools under William McTaggart and George Paul Chalmers. He travelled throughout Europe to paint, where the Netherlands and Italy were particularly favourites. He had a studio on Picardy Place and was a teacher at the Royal Scottish Academy art class on The Mound and at the Trustees Academy on Picardy Place. His pupils included Robert Gemmell Hutchison. For a long part of his live he actually lived in the Netherlands. Towards the end of his life he lived again in Scotland, where he lived in Dumfries and Galloway and where he is also mentioned in Corstorphine in 1896. He died on 25 September 1913 whilst in Ledaig, Argyll.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Painting By Robert Gemmell Hutchison

Tour Scotland photograph of a painting by Robert Gemmell Hutchison, who was born on 1 July 1855 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the first son of George Hutchison, a brass founder, and his wife Margaret Forman. He was educated in Edinburgh. After first training as a seal engraver he was encouraged to pursue oil painting and trained under James Campbell Noble at the Trustees Academy on Picardy Place. He set up his own studio at 1 India Buildings in 1878 and was instantly successful, exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1879 and at the Royal Academy in 1881. He shifted quickly from empty seascapes, largely of the Fife coast, to genre paintings, usually of people from the coast. He was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1903 and a full member in 1911. He was also elected to the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. His first one man show in London, England, was in December 1928 at Barbizon House, when 34 of his pictures were displayed. In later life he lived at 14 Craighall Terrace in Musselburgh, east of Edinburgh. He returned to Edinburgh in 1912, living at 8 St Bernards Crescent in the Stockbridge area. In the 1930s he spent time with his daughter at her home in Coldingham, painting at St. Abbs. He died at his daughter’s house on 22 August 1936.



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