Background
WEIRTER, Louis was born in 1873 in Edinburgh. 3rd son of Frederick Weirter, musician.
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Louis WEIRTER
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Education
Edinburgh. Apprenticed to lithography. Studied in Royal Scottish Academy and Board of Manufacturers’ Schools.
Career
Exhibited iirst picture in the Royal Scottish Academy, 1888. One of the originators of the Scottish Society of Artists. Began illustrated journalism on the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch.
Devoted much time to black and white work for the principal London and provincial press
The original drawings of Archdeacon Sinclair’s book on Saint Paul’s, purchased by the Board of Education for the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. Principal works: Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee procession from the dome of Saint Paul’s, the property of the Brigade of Guards and placed in the Albany Barracks at Windsor.
The Call to Arms, purchased by the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers. Foreign Queen and Country, reproduced in photogravure and purchased privately.
London the Beautiful, 20 foot canvas, exhibited in Hanover Gallery.
Membership
Royal Society of British Artists 1904. Club: Yorick.
