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John Macwhirter
John MacWhirter - Skye from Loch Alsh

Name: John MacWhirter - Skye from Loch Alsh
Brand: John Macwhirter

$3,848.46List Price

About the Item

An excellent landscape by John MacWhirter RA RSA RI (1839-1911), looking over to the Isle of Skye from Loch Alsh, Scotland. Oil on Canvas, Signed with initials bottom right, generally good condition and typical of this artist. John MacWhirter was the son of the late George MacWhirter, paper manufacturer, of Colington, Edinburgh and was born at Slateford, near Edinburgh on March 27th 1838. He came of an old Ayrshire family, one of whom was numbered among the 'Ayrshire Martyrs'. He was 13 when his father died, an event which caused him to leave school at Peebles and to enter as an apprentice into the business of Oliver and Boyd, the booksellers and publishers. But already the love of art was strong in him, and after six months he broke his articles, determined to become a painter. When he was 14 he exhibited his first work at the Royal Scottish Academy, and about the same time entered the Arts Schools, then under the direction of an excellent painter, Robert Scott Lauder RSA. It was a good moment in the Edinburgh schools, and among MacWhirter's companions were a number of men who soon attained distinction – William MacTaggart, Hugh Cameron, and three painters who were afterwards his close friends and colleagues in the Royal Academy, John Pettie, Peter Graham and WQ Orchardson. Under Lauder's training MacWhirter made rapid progress; his love of nature was keen and his industry great, so that each year's exhibition saw him steadily advancing. From the years 1856 onwards he seldom exhibited fewer than five pictures, and in 1867, when he was 28, he was elected ARSA. His studies were made in the Highlands, where he spent a large part every year, and on the Continent, where he had travelled constantly since he was a boy of 16. His first Academy picture, a 'Temple of Vesta' was shown in 1856, and from 1870 he exhibited in London – generally two landscapes each year – without a break. In 1879 he was elected ARA and in 1893 full Academician, in the company with Mr Henry Woods and the late Henry Moore. Before and after that time his style and subjects varied little; the large majority of his pictures and drawings have been views of the Highlands, with blue, sunlit lakes, and commonly a group of Scotch firs or graceful birch trees in the foreground. Sometimes, however, he has given us Italian lake scenes or Swiss meadows starred with flowers, such as the well-known 'Alpine Meadow' or that 'June in the Austrian Tyrol' which was bought in 1892 out of the Chantrey Fund.

Creator:
John Macwhirter (1839 - 1911, British)
Dimensions:
Height: 17.13 in (43.5 cm)Width: 27.56 in (70 cm)
More Editions & Sizes:
43.5 x 70 cm Price: $3,848
Medium:
Oil
Movement & Style:
Victorian
Period:
Mid-19th Century
Framing:
Framing Options Available
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Edinburgh, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1965210605532

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