Education
Studied at High Schools of Leith and Edinburgh.
Studied at High Schools of Leith and Edinburgh.
Works: A Barber’s Shop in the time of Elizabeth, 1863; A Street Incident in the Sixteenth Century, 1864; The Jacobite in Hiding, 1865; Shopping in the Sixteenth Century, 1867; Devotional Art, 1867; Ritchie Moniplies in Fleet Street, 1868; Tea-tattle, 1871; A Visit to the Spaewife, 1872; Caleb Balderston’s Ruse, 1874, engraved; The Haunted Room, 1875; In Days of Yore, 1877; The Spinners, 1879; A Trusty Maid, 1879; Secret Aid in ’45, 1881; Morning Practice, 1882; Escaped, 1884; ‘ Here’s to the King, sirs, Ye ken wlia I mean, sirs,’ 1884; Roland Graeme exchanging the keys—Lockleven Castle, 1896; Allan Fairford and Father Buonaventure at Fairladies, 1897; The Presence Chamber, 1898; A Scene at Chatsworth—15S0, 1899.Royal Scottish Academy, 1869. Elected to Secretaryship of the Academy, November 1881, in place of late William Brodie, Royal Scottish Academy. Retired 1907; studied modelling in the School of Art, and drawing and painting from the antique in the Board of Trustees Gallery of Casts.
At age of 17 entered the architectural profession.
But after some years he abandoned it for the more congenial one of the artist.
Royal Scottish Academy 1876.