John MacWhirter
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)John MacWhirter RA (27 March 1839 in Slateford, Edinburgh - 28 January 1911 in London)[1] was a Scottish landscape painter.[2]
Biography
John was the third of four children.Royal Academician.
MacWhirter specialised in romantic landscapes with a great fondness for trees, spending much time in the hilly countryside of
Pre-Raphaelites, but later adopted a more sweeping style. With John Pettie he illustrated Wordsworth's Poetry for the Young[5] (Strahan, 1863). With Waller H. Paton
and others, MacWhirter illustrated The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Hislop, 1869).
Family
He married Catherine ('Katie') Cowan Menzies (b. 1843) in 1872, her brother-in-law the Rev. James McFarlan officiating. The couple lived at 1 Abbey Road, St. John's Wood in the 1870s, and had two daughters and two sons:
- Agnes Helen ('Nan') *1873 who married the artist Charles Sims
- Helen Agnes *1875 x Sydney Malcolm Baird
- Ulric George *1878
- Alan Gordon *1882 x Doris May Cook
MacWhirter has paintings in several British Collections including
Royal Holloway University of London, Cheltenham and Derby Art Gallery.[6]
Bibliography
- MacWhirter, John Landscape Painting in Water-colour (London, Cassell), 1900
- Sinclair, W. M. John MacWhirter, R.A. : his life and work (The Art Annual), 1903
- MacWhirter, John The MacWhirter sketch book (Philadelphia, Lippincott), 1907; (London, Cassell), 1908
See also
References
- ^ "artnet AG Products - Investor Relations". www.artnet.com.
- ^ "MacWhirter, John". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1154.
- ^ "RootsWeb.com Home Page". wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "Wordsworth's Poems for the Young: With Fifty Illustrations by John Macwhirter and John Pettie, and a Vignette by J.E. Millais ; Engraved by Dalziel Brothers". Alexander Strahan & Company. 21 January 1863 – via Google Books.
- ^ "John MacWhirter". Art UK. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to John MacWhirter.
- 66 artworks by or after John MacWhirter at the Art UK site
- Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections
- Biography of John MacWhirter (Victorian painter) includes a transcription of his obituary in The Times of January 30, 1911
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