John MacWhirter
John MacWhirter (born March 27, 1837 in Slateford , Edinburgh , † January 28, 1911 in London ) was a Scottish landscape painter .
Life
MacWhirter studied at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh ; In 1869 he went to London. Regular trips abroad took him to Italy , Sicily , Austria-Hungary , Norway , as well as Switzerland , Turkey and the USA ; he was particularly fond of the Alps .
MacWhirter mainly created landscape views and studies of trees. He preferred to work in the great outdoors. His style was influenced by the romantic landscape painters , but less melancholy than that of his contemporaries Peter Graham and Joseph Farquharson . In 1900 he published a handbook of landscape watercolors in which he particularly emphasized the virtuosity of William Turner and John Everett Millais . MacWhirter's best-known work is "June in the Austrian Tyrol" ( Tate Gallery ).
From 1879 he was an associate of the Royal Academy of Arts and finally became a full member in 1893.
literature
- Dictionary of National Biography on the multimedia CD Infopedia UK, Softkey Multimedia Inc., 1996.
- Marcus Halliwell: Highland Landscapes - Paintings of Scotland in the 19th Century. Garamond Publishers Ltd, London, 1990, ISBN 1-85583-001-9 , p. 16.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | MacWhirter, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Slateford , Edinburgh |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1911 |
| Place of death | London |