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Bessie MacNicol (1869-1904): A Glimpse into the Life of a Pioneering Scottish Artist
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Elizabeth MacNicol, a Scottish painter , was born in Glasgow on July 17, 1869, to a schoolmaster and his wife. Her artistic journey began at the Glasgow School of Art, where she dedicated herself from 1887 to 1892. Subsequently, she ventured to Paris to further her studies at the Academie Col…

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Iain Faulkner | Scottish Figurative Painter | Solitude
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Iain Faulkner was born in Glasgow in 1973. Since graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 1996 with a BA (Honours) Degree in Fine Art, he has established himself as a skilled draughtsman, an artist with the integrity to embrace the difficult path of contemporary figurative painting wherein the …

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Alan Wylie | Scottish Painter | 1938
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Alan Wylie was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1938. In 1960, he graduated from the Glasgow School of Art with a degree in Mural Design and Mosaics. He immigrated to Nova Scotia in 1967 and began a career as a full-time artist and teacher. In 1974, he moved to British Columbia and now lives in the h…

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Jack Vettriano |1951 | Scottish Painter | Figurative Painter
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Born in Fife, Scotland in 1951, Jack Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer. For his twenty-first birthday, a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolor paints and, from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint. In 1989, he submitted two paintings to th…

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Iain Faulkner | British Painter | 1973
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Iain Faulkner is a painter from Scotland and was born in Glasgow. He was raised to get his first education there. He earned his graduation in BA (Honours) Fine Art Degree from the Glasgow School of Art in the year 1996. Many of his peers and contemporary painters earned fashionable and trendy r…

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Romance | Jack Vettriano |1951 | Scottish Painter
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Born in Fife, Scotland in 1951, Jack Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer. For his twenty-first birthday, a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolor paints and, from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint. In 1989, he submitted two paintings to th…

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William Dyce | Scottish Painter | 1806-1864
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William Dyce was born in 1806 and died in 1864. He was a Scottish painter and pioneer of state art education in Great Britain. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and the Royal Academy schools, London. One of the first British students of early Italian Renaissance painting, he visit…

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Gorgeous Paintings By Shaun W Kerr
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"My name is Shaun William Kerr and I am a classical narrative oil painter, born in Dundee, Scotland living in Texas, USA.

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