25th Sep, 2024 13:00
British & International Pictures
* WILLIAM MILLER FRAZER RSA (SCOTTISH 1864 - 1961)
EAST LOTHIAN PASTORAL
oil on canvas, signed, titled verso
framed and under glass
image size 36cm x 46cm, overall size 55cm x 65cm
Label verso: The George Street Gallery, Perth
Exhibited at the RSA in 1948, no 367
Note: Frazer was a landscape painter, born at Scone, Perthshire, who attended Perth Academy, then studied at Royal Scottish Academy Schools, winning the Keith Prize, then in Paris. Elected RSA in 1924. Exhibited there and prolifically at Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, and at RA, RBA, RHA and ROI. Closely involved with Scottish Arts Club, of which he was for a time President. The Royal Scottish Academy exhibiting records show that he exhibited his first painting there in 1884 (aged twenty) and more than 270 further examples between 1884 and 1962 (the last three being loaned by a Mrs Lindsay Neilson). His first recorded address was Rock House, Bridgend, Perth and later addresses included 9 York Place (Edinburgh), Bridge of Earn (Perthshire), 72 Northumberland Street and 9 Abercromby Place (both Edinburgh) and from 1955 onwards, 5 Lady Road, Edinburgh.
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