Anne Redpath - Artist Info

About Anne Redpath

  • Biography

    Born in Galashiels, the daughter of a tweed designer, Anne Redpath overcame initial parental opposition to the study of art on condition that she also trained as a teacher. She enrolled at Edinburgh College of Art in 1913 where she was taught by David Alison, Henry Lintott and D. M. Sutherland amongst others. The College awarded her a traveling scholarship in 1919. Redpath traveled to Brussels, Bruges, Paris, Florence - where she lived for several months - and Siena, where she was impressed greatly by the work of the Sienese Primitives, particularly the brothers Lorenzetti.

    In 1920 she married James Beattie Michie, an architect with the War Graves Commission in France, spending 14 years bringing up a family, first i...

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