John Henry Lorimer

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The Flight of the Swallows by John Henry Lorimer, 1906
National Gallery of Scotland
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The Lorimer family grave, Newburn, Fife

John Henry Lorimer (12 August 1856 – 4 November 1936) was a Scottish painter who worked on portraits and

genre
scenes of everyday life.

Life

Lorimer was born in

Robert Lorimer, who he sketched and painted throughout his life along with his sisters. Lorimer's first portrait was of his mother Hannah, completed in 1875 when he was 19 years old.[3]

Lorimer travelled throughout

Joseph Lister, Peter Hately Waddell and Frederick Guthrie Tait
.

Lorimer was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1882 and made a full academician in 1900. He showed 123 works at the Royal Scottish Academy and 43 works at the Royal Academy in London.

In 1878, the Lorimer family acquired the lease of Kellie Castle in Fife and began its restoration for use as a holiday home. Many of Lorimer's paintings included Kellie Castle as a subject or as a setting; his studio was in one of the towers and looked out over the garden. Kellie Castle became the permanent family home, after purchase in 1948 by Robert Lorimer's son, the sculptor Hew Lorimer. The castle is owned today by the National Trust for Scotland who maintain a changing exhibition of his works, plus those of his brother, Robert Lorimer and nephew, Hew Lorimer.

1 Bruntsfield Crescent, Edinburgh

In later life, he lived at 1 Bruntsfield Crescent in Edinburgh in a large house remodelled by his brother Robert Lorimer who also lived there together with their sister Louise Lorimer. The artist Robert Gibb lived next door at 2 Bruntsfield Crescent at that time.[6]

He was a Vice-President of the Edinburgh Astronomical Association (now known as the

Sir James Jeans in 1937.[7]

John Henry Lorimer died at Gyles House, Pittenweem, Fife, on 4 November 1936.

He is buried with his parents and siblings in the family grave in the extreme south-west corner of the remote Newburn Churchyard in rural Fife.

Notes

  1. ^ "Sir Robert Lorimer | Architect of Ardkinglas House | Ardkinglas Estate". www.ardkinglas.com.
  2. ^ "Prices and estimates of works John Henry Lorimer". www.arcadja.com.
  3. ^ "Upward - Onward | Painting". Upward - Onward | The Art of Family. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  4. ^ "The People's Pick and John Henry Lorimer – A Son of the Rock -- Jack Deighton". jackdeighton.co.uk. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  5. ^ "John Henry Lorimer from The Gazetteer for Scotland". Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  6. ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1894-95
  7. ^ The Astronomical Society of Edinburgh, Lorimer Medal https://www.astronomyedinburgh.org/about-us/lorimer-medal/

External links

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