James Paterson RSA PRSW 1854-1932
Overview
Looking down Glen Cairn, exhibited 2017 - SOLD
In April 1884 James Paterson and his brother Robert married the Ferguson sisters from Hillhead, Glasgow. As a wedding gift, James received a house in Moniaive, Dumfriesshire which became his base for the rest of his life.
A growing reputation as a watercolourist was confirmed the following year when he was elected to the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours. Confident handling of the medium mirrored that of Melville, and was perhaps the by-product of lengthy training in the Paris ateliers.
Exhibitions
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True to Nature
Trees in Scottish Art 23 Sep - 12 Nov 2022 EdinburghTrees, as an extension of the natural landscape, have been weighted with meaning throughout the history of art. Over time allegory gave way to the decorative and picturesque. The broader...Read more -
The Glasgow Boys & Galloway Pictures
Harbour Cottage Gallery, Kirkcudbright 14 - 29 Aug 2021 EdinburghHarbour Cottage Gallery Castle Bank, Kirkcudbright DG6 4LB Open 11am to 5pm Monday through Saturday 12pm to 5pm on Sundays In this, our 6th exhibition at Harbour Cottage Gallery and...Read more -
New Works
6 - 29 May 2021 EdinburghThe Fine Art Society presents an exhibition of newly acquired work from 19th and 20th century Scottish artists, including: Patrick William Adam, Cosmo Alexander, Phyllis Bone, Sam Bough, John Boyd,...Read more -
Hang 2 //
Scottish Painting 1900-1940 13 Feb - 14 Mar 2020 EdinburghThe years 1900 to 1939 saw Britain move from a period of relative innocence and comfort to the trauma of war. After World War 1, artists retreated to more traditional,...Read more -
The Glasgow Boys 1870-1910
21 Jul - 28 Aug 2017 EdinburghIn a reaction to the prescribed approach to the Victorian painting of the late nineteenth century, the Glasgow Boys sought a new and ‘modern’ style of painting, where their compositions...Read more -
The Glasgow Boys
2 Oct - 14 Nov 2015 LondonThe Glasgow Boys presented a selected exhibition of paintings by those artists central to the group and others who, inspired by the vanguard's daring and rejection of the establishment. Inspired...Read more -
Scottish Pictures of the Twentieth Century
15 Feb - 16 Mar 2013 EdinburghWith work by E A Hornel, Sir D Y Cameron, S J Peploe, Anne Redpath, Sir William Gillies, A R Sturrock, William Wilson, Sir W O Hutchison, Alberto Morrocco, Robert...Read more -
Lavery and The Glasgow Boys
7 Apr - 8 May 2010 Edinburgh, LondonNo one quite understood why art should flourish in grimy Glasgow at the turn of the twentieth century. Even in eulogies on the ‘second city of the Empire’ there was...Read more
