Patrick Syme

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Patrick Syme (born September 17, 1774 in Edinburgh , † July 25, 1845 in Dollar , Clackmannanshire ) was a Scottish plant painter.

Live and act

In 1803, after the death of an older brother, Patrick Syme took over his position as a drawing teacher in Edinburgh . From 1808 he exhibited in the Society of Arts. On November 8, 1822, Eliza married Boswell, the daughter of Claude Boswell, later Lord Balmuto. Her son was the botanist John Thomas Irvine Boswell Syme (1822-1888).

On the recommendation of Sir William Jardine (1800–1874), whom he had taught, he taught from 1740 to 1745 at the Dollar Academy in Dollar ( Clackmannanshire ).

Some of his paintings are in the Scottish National Gallery .

Fonts

  • Practical Directions for Learning Flower-Drawing. A Series of Progressive Lessons . William Blackwood, Edinburgh 1810
  • Werner's Nomenclature of Colors: With Additions, Arranged So as to Render it Highly Useful to the Arts and Sciences. Annexed to which are Examples Selected from Well-known Objects in the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms . W. Blackwood, 1814 (translation); on-line
  • A treatise on British song-birds. Including observations of their natural habits, manner of incubation, & c. with remarks on the treatment of the young and management of the old birds in a domestic state . John Anderson, Edinburgh 1823 - Drawings by R. Scott

swell

  • Robert Brydall: History of Art in Scotland . P. 241 f., ISBN 1409783014
  • Ray Desmond, Christine Ellwood: Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists: Including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters, and Garden Designers . CRC Press, 1994, p. 669, ISBN 0850668433
  • Samuel Redgrave: A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers and Ornamentists: With Notices of Their Lives and Work . Bell, London 1878

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Elisabeth Jackson, Peter Davis: Sir William Jardine: A Life in Natural History . Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001, p. 235, ISBN 0718501640

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personal data
SURNAME Syme, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish plant painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1845
Place of death Dollar , Clackmannanshire