Robert Walker Macbeth

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Robert Walker Macbeth
Essex, England
OccupationPainter
SpouseLydia Esther Bates
Children2
RelativesNorman Macbeth (father)
Lydia Bilbrook (daughter)
Gen. John Bates (father in law)
James Macbeth (brother)
Henry Macbeth (brother)
Ann Macbeth (niece)

Robert Walker Macbeth

watercolourist, specialising in pastoral landscape and the rustic genre. His father was the portrait painter Norman Macbeth and his niece Ann Macbeth. Two of his five brothers, James Macbeth (1847–1891) and Henry Macbeth, later Macbeth-Raeburn RA
(1860–1947), were also artists.

Life

Fair Rosalind (1888)

Born in

Chantrey Bequest in 1890 and is now at Tate Britain
.

From 1871 Macbeth exhibited at the

.

In the same year (1871) Macbeth was made an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) becoming a full member in 1901. He became a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (RE) in 1880,[1] and an honorary member in 1909. In 1882 he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) and in 1883 was elected to be a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI). In 1883 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy (RA), becoming a full member in 1903.

On 9 August 1887, he married Lydia Esther Bates, daughter of General John Bates of the Bombay native cavalry.[2][3] Their daughter, Phillis Macbeth, was better known as the actress Lydia Bilbrook.[4] Their second daughter, Norma Robina Macbeth married John Thomas Hall in 1924.

He died at Holder's Green, near Lindsell, Essex.[5]

1895 Macbeth painted a mural, Opening of the Royal Exchange by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 28th October 1844, which can be seen in the Royal Exchange, London.

Gallery

Macbeth by J. P. Mayall from Artists at Home, published 1884, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
Our First Tiff, by Macbeth, oil on canvas, 1878

References

  1. ^ "MACBETH, Robert Walker". Who's Who. 59: 1103. 1907.
  2. required.)
  3. ^ "Robert Walker Macbeth (1848-1910), Victorian Art History".
  4. ^ "National Portrait Gallery – Portrait – NPG x83016; Lydia Bilbrooke (née Phillis Macbeth)". npg.org.uk.
  5. required.)

Bibliography

  • J. L. Caw, Scottish Painting 1620–1908 (Edinburgh; London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1908).
  • Christopher Wood, The Dictionary of Victorian Painters, Woodbridge, 1971
  • Johnson, J., and Anna Gruetzner Robins, The Dictionary of British Artists 1880–1940 (Woodbridge, 1980)
  • Giles Walkley, Artists' houses in London 1764–1914 (Aldershot, 1994).
  • Donato Esposito, 'Robert Walker Macbeth (1848–1910)’, in Frederick Walker and the Idyllists (London: Lund Humphries, 2017), pp. 137–57.

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