Robert Walker Macbeth - Artist Info

About Robert Walker Macbeth

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    Robert Walker Macbeth (30 September 1848, Glasgow - 1 November 1910, Golders Green, London)

    He was a Scottish painter, etcher and watercolorists, specializing in pastoral landscape and the rustic genre. His father was the portrait painter Norman Macbeth and his niece Ann Macbeth.

    Macbeth studied in London, producing realistic everyday scenes and working for The Graphic magazine. He painted in the Lincolnshire and Somerset countryside, in works influenced by those of George Hemming Mason and Frederick Walker. His The Cast Shoe was bought by the Chantrey Bequest in 1890, and is now at Tate Britain.

    From 1871 Macbeth exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Portrait Painters,...

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