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Method Etching
Artist Robert Walker Macbeth
Published London Published January 7th 1903 by W.R. Howell& Co Bedford Row Chambers, W.C. Copyright registered Goulding, Printers, London W.
Dimensions Image 285 x 429 mm Plate 327 x 465 mm Sheet 404 x 555 mm
Notes Initialed and dated in plate by artist, signed in pencil beneath image.

Robert Walker Macbeth (1848-1910) was the son of the Scottish portrait painter Norman Macbeth. He was an etcher, watercolourist and painter of pastoral landscapes, rustic genre scenes and has a unique etching style, very different from Haden or Whistler. He served on the Council of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery and the Fine Art Society in London, as well as the Royal Society of Artists in Birmingham, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and the Manchester City Art Gallery. He was a member of the Royal Water Colour Society, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Academy, and an honourary member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers.
Framing unmounted
Price £450.00
Stock ID 20978

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