Robert Gemmell Hutchison, RSA RBA ROI RSW (British, 1855-1936)

Item specifics

The product is a painting by Robert Gemmell Hutchison, a British artist born in 1855 and passed away in 1936. He was a member of various prestigious art societies. The painting was created in 1855.

Scottish Paintings & Sculpture

DESCRIPTION

Signed, oil on canvas

DIMENSIONS

46cm x 61cm (18in x 24in)

FOOTNOTE

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In his painting Robert Gemmel Hutchison strove for an essential truth: to capture a common humanity in his subjects. His charming compositions provide an insight into the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century taste for scenes of Scottish rural and domestic life. Dissatisfied with his apprenticeship as a seal engraver, the seventeen-year-old Hutchison secured a place at the Manufacturer’s School of Art in Edinburgh, where he studied under William McTaggart. Here, Hutchison cultivated an admiration for McTaggart that would endure for the rest of his life, and which in part inspired Hutchison’s loose painterly technique and interest in everyday rural life. Hutchison developed a successful artistic career – he exhibited regularly at the R.A. and R.S.A., and was elected to a number of prestigious institutions throughout the UK. He is remembered today as an important Scottish painter of the early twentieth century.