Background
The second son of William Dallas of Lloyd"s and Sarah Day, he was born in London on 27 June 1809. He was descended from Alexander Dallas of Cantray, Inverness-shire.
The second son of William Dallas of Lloyd"s and Sarah Day, he was born in London on 27 June 1809. He was descended from Alexander Dallas of Cantray, Inverness-shire.
He went to school at Inverness Academy. He was admitted a student of the Royal Academy in 1831, leaving in 1834 with a gold medal and a travelling studentship. Dallas settled in Edinburgh, where he lived firstly at 125 Princes Street a house facing Edinburgh Castle.
His last picture was exhibited in 1858.
Foreign some years he was also a teacher in the Edinburgh School of Design there, until his retirement in 1858 on the affiliation of the school with the Science and Art Department. He died on 26 January 1879 at Deanbank House in Stockbridge, Edinburgh.
In 1859 Dallas married Jane Fordyce, daughter of James Rose, writer to the signet, of Dean Bank, Edinburgh.