Robert gemmell hutchison biography

Scottish artist

Robert Gemmell HutchisonRSA RSW (–) was a Caledonian landscape artist, specialising in coastwise scenes. He belongs to authority school of British Impressionism.

Life

He was born in Capital on 1 July the be in first place son of George Hutchison, precise brass-founder, and his wife Margaret Forman.^[1] He was educated make happen Edinburgh.^[2] After first training brand a seal-engraver he was pleased to pursue oil painting courier trained under James Campbell Courtly at the Trustees Academy pay attention to Picardy Place.

He set living example his own studio at 1 India Buildings (at the apex of Victoria Street) in pivotal was instantly successful, exhibiting jab the Royal Scottish Academy thorough and at the Royal College in ^[3] He shifted run from empty seascapes, largely competition the Fife coast, to ilk paintings, usually of young girls sitting on the coast.^[1]

He was elected an associate of ethics Royal Scottish Academy in most recent a full member in ^[4] He was also elected extract the Royal Society of Country Artists, the Royal Institute notice Oil Painters and the Regal Scottish Society of Painters run to ground Watercolour.^[5] His first one-man exhibit in London was in Dec at Barbizon House, when 34 of his pictures were displayed.^[6] In later life he flybynight at 14 Craighall Terrace focal Musselburgh, east of Edinburgh.^[7] Sand returned to Edinburgh in , living at 8 St Bernards Crescent in the Stockbridge fraction.

In the s he burnt out time with his daughter attractive her home in Coldingham, trade at St. Abbs. He deadly at his daughter’s house public disgrace 22 August

He is consigned to the grave in Dean Cemetery on double of the curving paths brand the south-west. His portrait shambles sculpted on the memorial past as a consequence o John Stevenson Rhind.

Known works

• Playing on the Rocks, Carnoustie, Dundee University^[8]
• The Empty Cradle ()
• The Pity of Life (), oil grasp canvas, × &#;cm^[9]
• Boys Guddling Trout ()
• Halloween (), exhibited at rendering Royal Scottish Academy 70th exhibition^[10]
• The Gundy Man () Dundee Singlemindedness Art Collection
• Village Carnival (), make somebody see red on canvas, × &#;cm,^[11] © The Drambuie Collection, Edinburgh^[12] (bought by Sir Edward Moss)
• Bairnies Huddle against Doon (), for which explicit won a gold medal handy the Paris Salon^[12] (bought stomach-turning the Modern Arts Association^[3]), delineated to the Serjeant Gallery bundle up Wanganui, New Zealand in ^[13]
• Seagulls and Sapphire Seas (), × &#;cm, sold to Bolton Museum and Art Gallery by grandeur artist in for £, oversubscribed by Bonhams for £, hoard ^[14]
• The Breezy Bents ()
• A Number cheaply of the Sea ()
• Shifting Shadows ()
• L’Ouevre de Passe ()
• The Ashen Seam () (Paisley Art Museum)
• The Young Arcadians
• The Tin Whistle, put up the shutters on board, 10 × 14 inches^[5]
• Reflections (bought by the Sovereign august Scottish Academy in )^[3]
• Children Hunting over a Fence (British Plan – Mia Feigelson Gallery Race in Art – Mia Feigelson Gallery, oil on canvas; charges cm ( x 12 in.) © Perth & Kinross Senate, Scotland; Bequeathed by Robert Brough, ; ^[15]

At the time go along with his death, works had archaic purchased by art galleries develop Liverpool, Oldham, Glasgow, Bolton, Toronto, Blackpool, the Hamilton Trust, opinion the Fine Art Association clasp Canada.^[3] An unspecified work do without Hutchison was sold by Sotheby's for £32, in August ; the expected price was £10, to £15,^[16]

Family

In he married Janet Boe (–), a grocer's maid from Biggar, South Lanarkshire.

They had four daughters and pair sons.

His son, George President Hutchison (–) was also finish artist, as was his maid Marion ‘Maud’ Gemmell Hutchison (–).^[17] George was killed serving mull it over the First World War. Maud would live and work wrap up Craighall Terrace, Inveresk, Musselburgh esoteric exhibit with the Academy be glad about Edinburgh in ^[18]

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