Stanley Cursiter - Artist Info

About Stanley Cursiter

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    STANLEY CURSITER CBE PRSW RSA?
    Kirkwall, Orkney Isles 1887 – 1976 Stromness, Orkney Isles

    A Scottish painter of figure subjects and landscapes, Stanley Cursiter had a distinguished career, culminating in 1948 with his appointment as ‘His Majesty’s Painter and Limner in Scotland’ and the award of CBE, Order of the British Empire.

    Born in Kirkwall, Cursiter moved to Edinburgh around 1905, where he was apprenticed as a designer to a firm of printers, McLagan and Cummings. During this period he studied five nights a week at the Edinburgh College of Art. After refusing a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London, he became a full-time student at Edinburgh. Cursiter’s first exhibition was in Kirkwall in 1910, the ye...

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