Background
He was born in 1808 the son of Andrew Somerville, a wireworker on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.
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Andrew Somerville
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He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh, and then studied art at the Trustees Academy on Picardy Place, where he studied under William Simson.
Career
He is particularly noted for his illustration of Border ballads and several portraits. At the end of his life ‘’Andrew Somerville, portrait painter, Royal Academy’’ was listed as living at 4 James Square at the east end of Edinburgh’s First New Town. The property was demolished to build the Street James Shopping Centre.
He died in Edinburgh in January 1834.
He is thought to have been the nephew of David Somerville, engraver (f1798-1825).
