Sir George Chalmers

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Sir George Chalmers *George Drummond, 1687 - 1766. Lord Provost of Edinburgh* 1764

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Born 1718

Died 1791

Nationality Scottish

Birth place Edinburgh

Death place London

Chalmers was born in Edinburgh, the son of a herald painter to the Lyon court. He worked as a heraldic painter and engraver, which influenced the linear quality of his work, as well as studying with Allan Ramsay. After spending time in Florence and Minorca in 1751, due to his Jacobite sympathies, Chalmers returned to Edinburgh around 1760. He became a successful portrait painter, producing his best works in the 1770s. Chalmers later lived in Hull before moving to London in 1784, where he spent the last years of his life.

Sir George Chalmers, Bart., a native of Edinburgh and a pupil of Allan Ramsay, exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy from 1776 to 1790. Chalmers, born in Edinburgh, studied in London under Allan Ramsay, son of Allan Ramsay the poet, and later under masters in Italy. His family lost their estates owing to sympathy with the Jacobite cause. He practiced his profession as an artist first in Hull, and afterwards in London, with frequent travels to the Continent. In 1755 he painted at Menorca Edward Cornwallis and the distinguished General William Blakeney, then commanding at Menorca. He died in London in 1791. He was buried in Old St. Pancras Churchyard on 15 November 1791 next to his wife Dame Isabella Chalmers who had died in 1784. His grave was lost and is not listed on the Burdett Coutts memorial within the churchyard to important graves lost.

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