James Paterson Art

This stunning Victorian Impressionist portrait painting of a lute player is by noted Scottish Glasgow Boy artist James Paterson. Painted circa 1900 and exhibited at The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. It is a stunning half length portrait watercolour painting of a young woman holding a lute. The muted tones, brushwork and glancing light are superb and make this a very attractive painting. It is housed behind glass so in good condition and in a beautiful frame. Signed upper right. Provenance. Doig, Wilson and Wheatley Fine Art Dealers, Edinburgh. Miss Mary Cargill Edinburgh. Dott Aiken Edinburgh. Exhibition label for the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours. Condition. Watercolour on paper, image size is 21 inches by 14 inches and in good condition. Frame. Mounted and housed in an ornate gilt frame behind glass. Framed size is 32 inches by 27 inches and in good condition. James Paterson PRSW RSA RWS (1854-1932), was a Scottish landscape and portrait painter associated with The Glasgow Boys movement of artists. He is best known for his landscape paintings of Dumfriesshire, where he lived, at Moniaive from 1885 to 1905. James Paterson was born at Blantyre, near Glasgow, the eldest son of Andrew Paterson (1819-1907) and his wife Margaret Hunter...

A fine oil by James Paterson (1854-1932) circa 1910's. oil on canvas 51cmx64cm Antique oak frame with giltwood slip frame 73cmx 83cm An interesting still life compostion consisting essentially of momento mori objects with sprigs of flower blossom. All relate to the life of Joan of Arc. Good original condition having craquelure to the paint surface, small areas of blistering which is stable. James Paterson's oil paintings make up to 10,000USD at auction alone. Viewing welcome. Higher resolution images available. Worldwide shipping arrangeable. James Paterson PRSW RSA RWS (21 August 1854 – 25 January 1932), was a Scottish landscape and portrait painter associated with The Glasgow Boys movement of artists. He is best known for his landscape paintings of Dumfriesshire, where he lived, at Moniaive from 1885 to 1905. ames Paterson was born at Blantyre, near Glasgow on 21 August 1854, the eldest son of Andrew Paterson (1819-1907) and his wife Margaret Hunter (1817-1901). The Hunter family were sewed muslin manufacturers in Glasgow. When his father was orphaned at nineteen his uncle James Hunter appointed him a foreman in his warehouse and took him into partnership two years later at the early age of twenty-one. His father was a good watercolourist as well as one of the earliest amateur photographers in Scotland and most of his family developed artistic interests. James' brother William, born 1859, later became the owner of a gallery in Bond Street, London and his youngest brother Alexander, born 1862, became an architect.James studied at the Glasgow School of Art under Robert Greenlees and subsequently in Paris under Louis Jacquesson de La Chevreuse (1839-1903) and Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921). A couple of years after returning to Scotland he married, in 1884, Eliza Grier Ferguson, daughter of an engineer, William Ferguson...