Master class: Robert Scott Lauder and his pupils - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0903148498 ISBN 13: 9780903148498

Publisher: National Gallery of Scotland, 1983

Synopsis

The first art school in Britain to be funded with public money was the Trustees' Academy Edinburgh. Founded in 1760, it lasted just under a hundred years, before takeover in 1858 by a central government department, and its final decade was its most glorious. Then, under the Directorship of Robert Scott Lauder, the last and greatest of its teachers were trained: William McTaggart, William Quiller Orchardson, John Pettie, Gearge Paul Chalmers, Robert Herdman, Hugh Cameron, John MacWhirter, Peter Graham, Thomas Graham, John Burr and Alexander Burr. These artists have, with justice, been called the first genuine school of Scottish painters, and their careers, from their early art school studies, up to the pictures which made their names - in England as well as Scotland - are the subject of this book. The relationship of their work and ideas to those of their master Lauder is explored in detail for the first time, to reveal how the painterly values and colouristic tradition Lauder learnt from Venetian art, from Rubens, and from Wilkie, were passed on by him to the rising generation of Scots artists, so that a new tradition was forged.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Gallery of Scotland
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0903148498
• ISBN 13: 9780903148498
• Binding: Paperback