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Alexander Jamieson BIOGRAPHY
1873 Glasgow, Scotland - 1937. Known for: Expressionist landscape and building exterior painting.
Alexander Jamieson (1873-1937) Alexander Jamieson was born in Glasgow, and trained at the Haldane Academy, now part of the Glasgow School of Art. In 1898 he won a scholarship to spend a year in... Read full biography
Alexander Jamieson (1873-1937) Alexander Jamieson was born in Glasgow, and trained at the Haldane Academy, now part of the Glasgow School of Art. In 1898 he won a scholarship to spend a year in Paris, which proved a formative experience that would influence his work for the rest of his life and... Read full biography
Alexander Jamieson (1873-1937) Alexander Jamieson was born in Glasgow, and trained at the Haldane Academy, now part of the Glasgow School of Art. In 1898 he won a scholarship to spend a year in Paris, which proved a formative experience that would influence his work for the rest of his life and spark an abiding love for France. In Paris Jamieson was exposed to the work of the Impressionists, many of whom he met. The young artist adopted their techniques, and he evolved a style that would span... Read full biography
Alexander Jamieson (1873-1937) Alexander Jamieson was born in Glasgow, and trained at the Haldane Academy, now part of the Glasgow School of Art. In 1898 he won a scholarship to spend a year in Paris, which proved a formative experience that would influence his work for the rest of his life and spark an abiding love for France. In Paris Jamieson was exposed to the work of the Impressionists, many of whom he met. The young artist adopted their techniques, and he evolved a style that would span his career. Jamieson's work was characterised by this preference for painting en plein air, working wet-into-wet with bold, bravura brushstrokes to capture the transient nature of light. By the early 1900s Jamieson had returned home and married his... Read full biography
Alexander Jamieson (1873-1937) Alexander Jamieson was born in Glasgow, and trained at the Haldane Academy, now part of the Glasgow School of Art. In 1898 he won a scholarship to spend a year in Paris, which proved a formative experience that would influence his work for the rest of his life and spark an abiding love for France. In Paris Jamieson was exposed to the work of the Impressionists, many of whom he met. The young artist adopted their techniques, and he evolved a style that would span his career. Jamieson's work was characterised by this preference for painting en plein air, working wet-into-wet with bold, bravura brushstrokes to capture the transient nature of light. By the early 1900s Jamieson had returned home and married his artist wife whom he met in Paris. Concentrating on painting landscapes and townscapes, often of Continental subjects, his reputation grew... Read full biography
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Alexander Jamieson (1873-1937) Alexander Jamieson was born in Glasgow, and trained at the Haldane Academy, now part of the Glasgow School of Art. In 1898 he won a scholarship to spend a year in Paris, which proved a formative experience that would influence his work for the rest of his life and spark an abiding love for France.
In Paris Jamieson was exposed to the work of the Impressionists, many of whom he met. The young artist adopted their techniques, and he evolved a style that would span his career. Jamieson's work was characterised by this preference for painting en plein air, working wet-into-wet with bold, bravura brushstrokes to capture the transient nature of light.
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