William Brown Macdougall
by Frank Mowbray Taubman
William Brown Macdougall (16 December 1868 – 20 April 1936) was a Scottish artist, wood engraver, etcher and book illustrator.
Biography
from "The Fall of the Nibelungs"
by Margaret Armour
Macdougall was born in
Macdougall received his art education at the
Arts and Crafts Movement motifs.[5]
He died on 20 April 1936 in Loughton. After William's death Margaret returned to Edinburgh, where she died in 1943.
Legacy
Macdougall also painted in oils and other mediums.
His work was exhibited at the
Paris Salon
.
William’s sister Agnes donated 6 prints and a plaster bust of William done by Frank Mowbray Taubman while they were both students in Paris in the late 1890s to The Kelvingrove Art Gallery
in Glasgow.
The British Museum has a collection of 21 prints by Macdougall and other works are held by galleries throughout the UK.
There is an illustrated article with bibliography on him in the Imaginative Illustration Society's Studies in Illustration no.84 Summer 2023
Illustrated books
- The Home and Early Haunts of Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Armour and William Brown Macdougall
- The Book of Ruth William Brown Macdougall (1896)
- Chronicles of Strathearn William Brown Macdougall (1896)
- Thames Sonnets and Semblances Margaret Armour, William Brown Macdougall (1897)
- The Fall of the Nibelungs Margaret Armour and William Brown Macdougall (1897)
- The Eerie Book Margaret Armour and William Brown Macdougall (1898)
- Isabella, or The Pot of Basil John Keats, William Brown Macdougall (1898)
- The Shadow of Love, and other poems ... Margaret Armour and William Brown Macdougall (1898)
- Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Edward FitzGerald, William Brown Macdougall (1898)
- The Blessed Damozel Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Brown Macdougall and William Michael Rossetti (1898)
- Gudrun Margaret Armour and William Brown Macdougall (1928)
- The Fields of France Agnes Mary Francis Robinson and William Brown Macdougall (1905)
- (see Internet Archive)
References
- ^ Margaret Armour 10 September 1860 Abercorn, nr Linlithgow – 13 October 1943 Edinburgh
- ^ Anderson, Douglas A. (13 October 2012). "Lesser-Known Writers: Margaret Armour". Desturmobed.blogspot.com. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "News" (PDF). theydon.org.uk. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "Loughton Town Council - Blue Heritage Plaques". www.loughton-tc.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 2 May 2006. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ "Illustrating Keats: Images from the Poetry | John Keats | Poetry". Scribd.com. 6 April 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to William Brown MacDougall.
- Gallery of MacDougall paintings at Art UK – Uncovering the Nation's Art Collection
- W. B. Macdougall at Library of Congress, with 2 library catalogue records (under 'MacDougall, William Brown')
- [https://www.bookillustration.org Imaginative Book Illustration Society]
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