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[[File:Rosalind - Robert Walker Macbeth.jpg|thumb|left|''Fair [[As You Like It|Rosalind]]'' (1888)]] |
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Macbeth studied in London, producing realistic everyday scenes and working for ''[[The Graphic]]'' |
Macbeth studied in London, producing realistic everyday scenes and working for the weekly newspaper ''[[The Graphic]]''. He painted in the Lincolnshire and Somerset countryside, in works influenced by those of [[George Hemming Mason|George Heming Mason]] and [[Frederick Walker (painter)|Frederick Walker]]. His ''The Cast Shoe'' was bought by the [[Chantrey Bequest]] in 1890, and is now at [[Tate Britain]]. |
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In 1895 he painted a mural ''Opening of the Royal Exchange by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 28th October 1844'' which can be seen in the [[Royal Exchange, London]]. |
In 1895 he painted a mural ''Opening of the Royal Exchange by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 28th October 1844'' which can be seen in the [[Royal Exchange, London]]. |
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Revision as of 19:39, 21 November 2022
Robert Walker Macbeth RA (30 September 1848 in Glasgow – 1 November 1910 in London) was a Scottish painter, etcher and watercolourist, specialising in pastoral landscape and the rustic genre. His father was the portrait painter Norman Macbeth and his niece Ann Macbeth. Two of his five brothers, James Macbeth (1847–1891) and Henry Macbeth, later Macbeth-Raeburn RA (1860–1947), were also artists.
Life
Macbeth studied in London, producing realistic everyday scenes and working for the weekly newspaper The Graphic. He painted in the Lincolnshire and Somerset countryside, in works influenced by those of George Heming Mason and Frederick Walker. His The Cast Shoe was bought by the Chantrey Bequest in 1890, and is now at Tate Britain.
In 1895 he painted a mural Opening of the Royal Exchange by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 28th October 1844 which can be seen in the Royal Exchange, London.
From 1871 Macbeth exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery and the Fine Art Society in London. There were also exhibitions in the regions at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in Birmingham, the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and Manchester Art Gallery.
In the same year (1871) Macbeth was made an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) becoming a full member in 1901. He became a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (RE) in 1880,[1] and an honorary member in 1909. In 1882 he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) and in 1883 was elected to be a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI). In 1883 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy (RA), becoming a full member in 1903.
On 9 August 1887, he married Lydia Esther, daughter of General Bates of the Bombay native cavalry.[2][3] Their daughter, Phillis Macbeth, was better known as the actress Lydia Bilbrook.[4] He died at Holder's Green, near Lindsell, Essex.[5]
References
- ^ "MACBETH, Robert Walker". Who's Who. 59: 1103. 1907.
- ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34671. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Robert Walker Macbeth (1848-1910), Victorian Art History".
- ^ "National Portrait Gallery – Portrait – NPG x83016; Lydia Bilbrooke (née Phillis Macbeth)". npg.org.uk.
- ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34671. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Bibliography
- J. L. Caw, Scottish Painting 1620–1908 (Edinburgh; London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1908).
- Christopher Wood, The Dictionary of Victorian Painters, Woodbridge, 1971
- Johnson, J., and Anna Gruetzner Robins, The Dictionary of British Artists 1880–1940 (Woodbridge, 1980)
- Giles Walkley, Artists' houses in London 1764–1914 (Aldershot, 1994).
- Donato Esposito, 'Robert Walker Macbeth (1848–1910)’, in Frederick Walker and the Idyllists (London: Lund Humphries, 2017), pp. 137–57.
External links
- 16 artworks by or after Robert Walker Macbeth at the Art UK site
- Portraits of RW Macbeth at the National Portrait Gallery
- Biography
- Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections
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