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Sir George Reid PRSA (31 October 1841 – 9 February 1913) was a Scottish artist.




Early life and education


Reid was born in Aberdeen in 1841, the son of George Reid (1803–1882) and his wife Esther Tait (1811–1892).
He developed an early passion for drawing, which led to his being apprenticed in 1854 for seven years to Messrs Keith & Gibb, lithographers in Aberdeen. In 1861 Reid took lessons from an itinerant portrait-painter, William Niddrie, who had been a pupil of James Giles, R.S.A., and afterwards entered as a student in the school of the board of trustees in Edinburgh.




Career



Reid returned to Aberdeen to paint landscapes and portraits for any sum which his work could command. His first portrait to attract attention, from its fine quality, was that of George Macdonald, the poet and novelist (now the property of the University of Aberdeen). His early landscapes were conscientiously painted in the open air and on the spot. But Reid soon came to see that such work was inherently false, painted as it was day after day under varying conditions of light and shade. Accordingly, in 1865 he proceeded to Utrecht to study under Alexander Mollinger, whose work he admired for its unity and simplicity. This change in his method of viewing nature was looked on as revolutionary by the Royal Scottish Academy, and for some years his work found little favour in that quarter; but other artists gradually adopted the system of tone-studies which ultimately prevailed. Reid went to Paris in 1868 to study under the figure painter Adolphe Yvon; and he worked in 1872 with Jozef Israëls at The Hague. From this time forward, Reid's success was continuous and marked.
He showed his versatility in landscape, as in his Whins in Bloom, which combined great breadth with fine detail; in flower-pieces, such as his Roses, which were brilliant in rapid suggestiveness and force; but most of all in his portraits, which are marked by great individuality, and by insight into character. His work in black-and-white, his illustrations in brushwork of Edinburgh and its neighbourhood, and also his pen-drawings, about which it has been declared that "his work contains all the subtleties and refinements of a most delicate etching," are also noted works. Elected Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1870, Reid attained full membership in 1877, and took up his residence in Edinburgh at 17 Carlton Terrace on Calton Hill, in 1882. In 1891 he was elected President of the academy - a post which he held until 1902. He received also the honour of a knighthood, and he was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1900.
In later life he lived at 22 Royal Terrace on Calton Hill. He died in Somerset on 9 February 1913. His body was returned to Aberdeen, where he is buried with his parents in St Peter's Cemetery in the north of the city. The unusual Roman style memorial stands in front of a more traditional wall memorial on the north wall of the cemetery near the north-east corner.




Known works


Alexander Bain, University of Aberdeen
Arthur James Balfour, University of Edinburgh
Henry Calderwood, University of Edinburgh
Portrait of James Edward Crombie FRSE, Aberdeen Art Galleries
John Ritchie Findlay, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Robert Flint, University of Edinburgh
Alexander Campbell Fraser, University of Edinburgh
Alderman Sir James Hoy, Manchester Art Galleries
David Masson, University of Edinburgh
Robert Rainy, University of Edinburgh
Very Rev Paton James Gloag (Gloag family)
Peter Guthrie Tait, University of Edinburgh
Sir John Usher of Norton and Wells, Usher baronets, University of Edinburgh
Edith Mary Field, aged 15, oil painting dated 1873, Anthony J. Lester, FRSA
James Franck Bright, DD, Master, University College, Oxford http://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/file/james-franck-bright Archived 6 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine
Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Cambridge University
Charles Chalmers, President of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen
James Drummond, Principal, Manchester College Oxford (forerunner of Harris Manchester College, Oxford)
William Shore, Huntsman to the Duke of Buccleuch, hung at Bowhill House




Family


His brothers, Archibald David Reid and Samuel Reid (born 1854), were also artists.
His wife Margaret (1840–1923) was also from Aberdeen.




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References



Attribution:

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Reid, Sir George". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 50.




External links



Works by George Reid at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about George Reid at the Internet Archive
259 artworks by or after George Reid at the Art UK site

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