William Johnstone
Thomas Scott, 1854 - 1927. Artist
About this artwork
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title:Thomas Scott, 1854 - 1927. Artist
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accession number:PG 2065
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materials:Oil on canvas
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date created:1918
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measurements:69.20 x 56.20 cm (framed: 71.70 x 58.90 x 2.00 cm)
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credit line:Bequeathed by Miss J.G.D. Miller 1967
William Johnstone
George Fiddes Watt
William Johnstone
Johnstone was born in Denholm in the Scottish Borders. He worked on the family farm during the First World War, selling up in 1919 to study at Edinburgh College of Art. He went on to the Royal Scottish Academy Schools, winning the Carnegie travelling scholarship in 1925. Most of his…
George Fiddes Watt
The portrait painter George Fiddes Watt was born in Aberdeen. He was apprenticed to a firm of lithograph printers for seven years and attended evening classes at Gray’s School of Art. At twenty-one Watt moved to Edinburgh, where he studied at the Royal Scottish Academy and first showed four paintings…
