biography
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| lived:
| (1744–96)
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| biography:
| Genre and portrait painter, known as the ‘Scottish Hogarth’, born in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, C Scotland, UK. He studied in Glasgow and in Rome, went to London (1777–80) to paint portraits, and became director of the Edinburgh Academy of Arts in 1786. He illustrated Allan Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd and some of Robert Burns' poems. |
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