James Paterson RSA PRSW 1854-1932
In April 1884 James Paterson and his brother Robert married the Ferguson sisters from Hillhead, Glasgow. As a wedding gift, James received a house in Moniaive, Dumfriesshire which became his base for the rest of his life.
A growing reputation as a watercolourist was confirmed the following year when he was elected to the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours. Confident handling of the medium mirrored that of Melville, and was perhaps the by-product of lengthy training in the Paris ateliers.
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Art & Design
1890 - 195022 Mar - 1 Jun 2024Read moreTrue to Nature
Trees in Scottish Art23 Sep - 12 Nov 2022Trees, as an extension of the natural landscape, have been weighted with meaning throughout the history of art. Over time allegory gave way to the decorative and picturesque. The broader...Read moreThe Glasgow Boys & Galloway Pictures
Harbour Cottage Gallery, Kirkcudbright14 - 29 Aug 2021Harbour Cottage Gallery Castle Bank, Kirkcudbright DG6 4LB Open 11am to 5pm Monday through Saturday 12pm to 5pm on Sundays In this, our 6th exhibition at Harbour Cottage Gallery and...Read moreNew Works
6 - 29 May 2021The Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of newly acquired work from 19th and 20th century Scottish artists, including: Patrick William Adam, Cosmo Alexander, Phyllis Bone, Sam Bough, John Boyd,...Read moreHang 2 //
Scottish Painting 1900-194013 Feb - 14 Mar 2020The years 1900 to 1939 saw Britain move from a period of relative innocence and comfort to the trauma of war. After World War 1, artists retreated to more traditional,...Read moreThe Glasgow Boys 1870-1910
21 Jul - 28 Aug 2017In a reaction to the prescribed approach to the Victorian painting of the late nineteenth century, the Glasgow Boys sought a new and ‘modern’ style of painting, where their compositions...Read moreThe Glasgow Boys
2 Oct - 14 Nov 2015The Glasgow Boys presented a selected exhibition of paintings by those artists central to the group and others who, inspired by the vanguard's daring and rejection of the establishment. Inspired...Read moreScottish Pictures of the Twentieth Century
15 Feb - 16 Mar 2013With work by E A Hornel, Sir D Y Cameron, S J Peploe, Anne Redpath, Sir William Gillies, A R Sturrock, William Wilson, Sir W O Hutchison, Alberto Morrocco, Robert...Read moreLavery and The Glasgow Boys
7 Apr - 8 May 2010No one quite understood why art should flourish in grimy Glasgow at the turn of the twentieth century. Even in eulogies on the ‘second city of the Empire’ there was...Read more
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