Art and Artists
While at this time we don't have any major historical information on Scottish Artists we do have various biographical works about them. This page is thus links to parts of our site where you can find information on them.

• Famous Lauder Artists
• Scots Artists in North America
• William Berry
• Francis WIlliam Oliphant
• Patrick Gibson
• Alexander Nasmyth
• Sir Henry Raeburn
• Sir William Allan
• John Kay
• John Brown
• James Burnet
• Rev John Thomson
• Gavin Hamilton
• Peter Nasmyth
• David Scott
• George Jamesone
• William Aikman
• Sir David Wilkie
• John Donaldson
• William Keith
• The Scot Abroad
• Scottish Artists and Painters
  A section by James Shields where he profiles Scottish artists he has known.
• Calum Colvin
• The Scottish School of Painting
  By William D. MaKay, R.S.A. (1906)
• Sculptured Stones of Scotland
  Printed by the Spalding Club in two volumes (1856)
• Finding Scottish Art
  By Murdo MacDonald, Professor of History of Scottish Art, University of Dundee, Scotland.
• Nerine McIntyre
  Winner of the Landscape Artist of the Year in 2015
• Art in Scotland
  Its Origin and Progress by Robert Brydall, Master of the St George's Art School of Glasgow
• The Glasgow School of Painters
  By G. Baldwin Brown, Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art in the University of Edinburgh with Fifty-four Reproductions in With Fifty-four Reproductions in Photogravure by J. Craig Annan (1908) (pdf)
• Scottish Painters
• Scottish Painters
  A Critical Study by Walter Armstrong, B.A., Oxon (1888) (pdf)
• William de la Cour
  Painter, Engraver, and Teacher of Drawing. An unwritten chapter in the History of Old Edinburgh By David Fraser Harris, M.D., B.Sc. (London).
• Album of the Scottish Artists Club
  Published by David Douglas (1892) (pdf)
• Artists of the Nineteenth century and their works
  Containing two thousand and fifty biographical sketches by Clara (Erskine) Clement and Laurence Hutton in two volumes (1879)
• David Young Cameron
  Painter and Etcher
• Scottish Pottery
  By J. Arnold Fleming, O.B.E. (1923) (pdf)
• Callum Stevenson
  Painting of Nicola Benedetti

• FOR ALL THE CHILDREN,  and, or,  THOSE who are young at heart.
  Introduction
  Crosshatching
  Shading
  Circles and Flat circles
  Squares
  Cones
  Cylinders
  Balance asymmetry & symmetry
  Values
  Perspective in line and color
  Learn to draw on the right side of your brain
• Drawing on the Right Side of your Brain.
  Introduction
  Lesson One - The Seeing of Edges
  Lesson Two - The Seeing of Spaces
  Lesson Three - Seeing Relationships
  Lesson Four - Light & Shadow
  Lesson Five - Gestalt
• I Can Sketch and Draw (pdf)
  By Donna Flood

The Royal Scottish Academy 1826-1916
A Complete List of the exhibited Works by Raeburn and by Academicians, Associates and Hon. Members, giving details of those Works in Public Galleries, compiled under the direction of Frank Rinder with the sanction of the President and Council, with a Historical Narrative of the Origin and Development of theRoyal Scottish Academy by W. D. McKay, R.S.A., preceded by an Essay on Academies and Art by Frank Rinder (1917) (pdf)
Exhibition by The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture
Of Works of Deceased and Living Scottish Artists October 1863 (pdf)
Catalogue of a Collection of old Wedgwood belonging to Arthur Sanderson, Esq.
Arranged for Exhibition at the Museum of Science and Art, Chambers Street, Edinburgh in 1901 (pdf)
Variant
a radical arts magazine No.1 (pdf)

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