Robert McGregor | Genre painter | Tutt'Art@

Robert McGregor RSA (1847-1922) was a Scottish landscape painter, genre painter, portrait painter and marine painter.

His genre was particularly painting working men such as fishermen, shepherds, crofters, pedlars, and farm labourers.

However he also painted Scottish, French and Dutch country and coastal scenery.

He usually signed his work in the right hand bottom corner.

Robert McGregor (MacGregor) RSA was the son of a Scottish businessman who lived first in Bradford, Yorkshire, where Robert was born in 1847 but later moved with his family to Dunfermline and afterwards to Edinburgh when Robert was still young.

Although he at the time had not had any art training he was employed at Nelson's book publishers in Edinburgh as a book illustrator.

He attended the RSA Life schools and simultaneously was taught by a French artist to paint and draw.

He first exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1873 and was elected a member there in 1889.

He continued to exhibit at the RSA until 1914.

McGregor travelled frequently to France in particular to Brittany and Normandy and to the Netherlands.

In France he was influenced by the painters Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) and Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1889).

In the Netherlands he was influenced by the painters Anton Mauve (1838-1888) and Jozef Israëls (1824-1911), hence the changing styles of his work.

James Lewis Caw (1864-1950), director of the Scottish National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, wrote of McGregor that he probably was the first Scottish genre painter to apply rigorous study of tone in his work and a pleasant if restricted colourist.

Although he had learned much of some of his modern Dutchmen and his pictures were individual and have a sentiment of their own.

Others praised him for the combination of tone with quiet colours and the more subtle light of the Dutch coast.

McGregor died in Edinburgh in 1922. | Source: © Wikipedia

Robert McGregor RSA (1847-1922) è stato un paesaggista Scozzese, pittore di genere, ritrattista e pittore marino.

Il suo genere era in particolare quello di dipingere uomini che lavorano come pescatori, pastori, contadini, venditori ambulanti e braccianti agricoli.

Tuttavia dipinse anche paesaggi costieri e di campagna scozzesi, francesi ed olandesi.

Di solito firmava il suo lavoro nell'angolo, in basso a destra.

Robert McGregor (MacGregor) RSA era il figlio di un uomo d'affari scozzese che visse prima a Bradford, nello Yorkshire, dove Robert nacque nel 1847 ma in seguito si trasferì con la famiglia a Dunfermline e successivamente ad Edimburgo quando Robert era ancora giovane.

Sebbene all'epoca non avesse avuto alcuna formazione artistica, lavorò presso la casa editrice Nelson ad Edimburgo come illustratore di libri.

Frequenta le scuole RSA Life e contemporaneamente gli viene insegnato a dipingere e disegnare da un artista francese.

Espose per la prima volta alla Royal Scottish Academy nel 1873 e ne fu eletto membro nel 1889.

Continuò ad esporre alla RSA fino al 1914.

McGregor viaggiò spesso in Francia, in particolare in Bretagna, Normandia e nei Paesi Bassi.

In Francia fu influenzato dai pittori Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) e Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1889).

Nei Paesi Bassi fu influenzato dai pittori Anton Mauve (1838-1888) e Jozef Israëls (1824-1911), da qui i mutevoli stili del suo lavoro.

James Lewis Caw (1864-1950), direttore della Scottish National Gallery e della National Portrait Gallery, scrisse di McGregor che probabilmente fu il primo pittore di genere scozzese ad applicare uno studio rigoroso del tono nel suo lavoro ed un colorista piacevole anche se limitato.