About this artwork
Essayist, poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson was the only child of respectable, middle-class, religious parents, brought up in the polite society of Edinburgh’s New Town. Adventurous and high-spirited by nature, he rebelled and adopted a bohemian life-style that scandalised his parents. While attending the University of Edinburgh he led a double life: by day a studious undergraduate, by night frequenting the drinking haunts and brothels of the Old Town.
Updated before 2020
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artist:William Strang (1859 - 1921) Scottish
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title:Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850 - 1894. Essayist, poet and novelist
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date created:Unknown
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after:William Strang (1859 - 1921) Scottish
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materials:Etching on paper
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measurements:Height: 10.79 cm
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accession number:PGE 21
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William Strang
William Strang
Born in Dumbarton, William Strang was briefly a clerk in the family shipbuilding firm before he entered the Slade School of Art in London in 1876. At the Slade he was deeply influenced by the teaching of Alphonse Legros, particularly the etching class which Legros instituted in 1877. The subject...