Robert thorburn ross biography sample
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Ross RSA, Robert Thorburn ()
Debuted at the Royal Society of British Artists with ‘A Lover’s Tiff’.
Lived in Edinburgh.
Died
Obituary
The Art Journal
“In the Art Journal of is a notice of the life and works of this artist, whose death occurred about the middle of the month of July last. Mr. Ross, a very popular painter of genre subjects - Scottish life in the cottage, on the seacoast, and by the riverside - was born in Edinburgh, in , and studied under G. Simson, R.S.A., at that time considered the principal Art teacher in the city; he also attended the schools of the Trustees' Academy, where so many excellent artists of Scotland learned the rudiments, and something beyond the rudiments, of their art: there he studied for three years under the superintendence of Mr. (after Sir William) Allan, R.A., and R.S.A.
Mr. Ross first appeared as an exhibitor at the Scottish Academy in , and constantly contributed to its annual exhibitions three or four works on an average, which gener
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continued in the evening at Leigh's school. In he spent six months at Couture's atelier in Paris. He also joined a society which met every evening in Clipstone Street for drawing and criticism. D. G. Rossetti, C. Keene, J. R. Clayton, F. Smallfield, the brothers E. and G. Dalziel, and G. P. Boyce were fellow members. From his youth Wells devoted himself to portraiture. At first he practised exclusively as a miniature painter, much in the manner of Sir W. Ross, with whom and Robert Thorburn he shared the practice of the time. Between and Wells contributed over seventy miniatures, principally of ladies and children, all of which are now in private hands, to the Royal Academy exhibitions. Among these the most noticeable are the Princess Mary of Cambridge, painted in by command for Queen Victoria, and whole-lengths of the Duchess of Sutherland (as Lady Stafford), Countess Waldegrave, and Mrs. Popham ().
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