Alexander Brownlie Docharty (1862–1940) was a Scottish painter, mainly in oils. He was the second son of Joseph Docharty and Elizabeth Brownlie. Joseph Docharty was a designer of

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s; Alexander left school at the age of thirteen to join his father. He studied part-time at the

Glasgow School of Art The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; gd, Sgoil-ealain Ghlaschu) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, and ...

, attending

Robert Greenlees Robert Greenlees (1820–1894) was a Scottish artist and educationalist. He was employed at the Glasgow School of Art as a pupil teacher, both teaching and studying. Greenlees taught drawing in the elementary classes, and became the Second Mast ...

' evening classes. In 1878 Docharty's watercolour ''On The Cart- Pollockshaws'' was exhibited at the

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. The

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accepted his painting ''Arran Cottages'' for exhibition in 1882. In the early 1880s Docharty was a designer for Inglis and Wakefield, a printing firm based at Busby. He left that firm some time before 1885, when he was based at

James Docharty James Docharty (1829–1878) was a Scottish landscape painter. He was born at Bonhill, near Dumbarton, in 1829. He first worked for his father as a designer of calico fabric.Academie Julien An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, f ...

under

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and

Jean-Paul Laurens Jean-Paul Laurens (; 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Biography Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexand ...

. He subsequently lived at Kilkerran,

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. His ''Glen Falloch'' was exhibited in 1906 at the Glasgow Fine Arts Institute.

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