Robert Macbeth
Robert Walker Macbeth (born September 30, 1848 in Glasgow , † November 1, 1910 in Golder's Green, London ) was a Scottish painter .
Macbeth, son of the portrait painter Norman Macbeth , began his studies in Edinburgh and has retained the characteristics of the Scottish school in his later artistic career. From 1870 he studied in London, shortly afterwards became a member of the of Painters in Water Colors and exhibited a painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1872 : Phyllis on freshly mown hay , which attracted the general attention as much as his magnificent A Lincolnshire Gang , a number of young children at work in the fields. Its potato autumn and rushes are also evidence of a strong and lively color. Most outstanding, however, is the swamp flooding (1880). He was also a skilled eraser . In 1880 he and other artists founded the Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in order to establish etching and engraving as recognized art forms. In 1883 he was accepted into the Royal Academy of Arts.
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| SURNAME | Macbeth, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Macbeth, Robert Walker (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1910 |
| Place of death | Golder's Green, London |