Duncan Macmillan, FRSA, FRSE, HRSA, is a Scottish art historian, art critic, and writer.

Biography

He is the elder son of William Miller Macmillan. Born in 1939, and educated at Gordonstoun School, he obtained his MA degree at the

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, his Academic Diploma at the

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, and his PhD at the

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. He is an honorary graduate of the

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. Macmillan is Professor Emeritus of the History of Scottish Art at the

, and a former Curator of the Talbot Rice Gallery. Between 2008 and 2012 he was curator of the

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. He is also art critic for

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Works

His works include ''Painting in Scotland: the Golden Age'' (Oxford 1986), and ''Scottish Art 1460-1990'' (Edinburgh 2000), According to Cairns Craig, the book views Scottish art as emanating from public art practices of the

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. The

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considered that Macmillan was excellent on the Renaissance but later prone to "a certain unevenness". Nonetheless, the "TLS" praised his "intellectual underpinning" and treatments of William Quiller Orchardson and William McTaggart. In 1991 this book won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year award. Macmillan's works also include ''Scottish Art in the 20th Century'' (Edinburgh 1994, Scottish Arts Council Book Award), and ''Scotland's Shrine: The Scottish National War Memorial'', which is accompanied by a foreword by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Lund Humphries, 2014). Macmillan is author of monographs on Scottish and European artists, including

Will Maclean Will Maclean MBE is a Scottish artist and professor of art. Born in Inverness in 1941, he was a midshipman on at Anglesey in Wales (Blue Funnel Line, 1957–59) before attending Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen (1961–65) and then the British Scho ...

, Steven Campbell, Elizabeth Blackadder, Victoria Crowe, and (with Tom Hewlett) of

FCB Cadell Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell RSA (12 April 1883 – 6 December 1937) was a Scottish Colourist painter, renowned for his depictions of the elegant New Town interiors of his native Edinburgh, and for his work on Iona. From October 2011 - ...

. His 2015 critique of intellectual and moral probity in the contemporary art world, entitled ''The Thought Police'', appeared in ''Treason of the Scholars''.

Distinctions

In 2004 he was awarded the Henry Duncan Prize for his contribution to Scottish Historiography by the

. In 2005 he was awarded the Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun Prize for his contribution to Scottish life by the Saltire Society. In 2018 he was awarded the Sir Walter Scott Medal of the

for his outstanding contribution to the appreciation of Scottish Art and its place within the European Tradition.

Bibliography

Books

* Duncan Macmillan, ''Painting in Scotland: the Golden Age'' (

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, 1986) * Duncan Macmillan, ''Scottish Art 1460-1990'' ( Mainstream, 1990) * Duncan Macmillan, ''Symbols of Survival, The Art of

'' (revised edition 2002) * Duncan Macmillan, ''Scottish Art in the 20th Century'' (1994) * Duncan Macmillan, '' Elizabeth Blackadder'' (Scolar Press, 1999, ), on Scottish painter and printmaker Elizabeth Blackadder * Duncan Macmillan, ''Scottish Art 1460-2000'' (Mainstream, 2nd edition, 2000, ) * Tom Hewlett and Duncan Macmillan, ''

F.C.B. Cadell Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell RSA (12 April 1883 – 6 December 1937) was a Scottish Colourist painter, renowned for his depictions of the elegant New Town interiors of his native Edinburgh, and for his work on Iona. From October 2011 - ...

: The Life and Works of a Scottish Colourist 1883-1937'' ( Lund Humphries, 2011) * Duncan Macmillan, '' Victoria Crowe'' (Antique Collectors' Club, 2012), on Scottish artist Victoria Crowe * Duncan Macmillan, ''Scotland's Shrine: The Scottish National War Memorial'' (Lund Humphries, 2014)

Articles

* ''The Tradition of Painting in Scotland'', in ''

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'' No. 1, Autumn 1979, pp. 36 – 38, * ''Scotland and the Art of Nationalism'', in ''

'' No. 4, Winter 1980-81, pp. 33 – 35, * ''Scottish Painting 1500 - 1700'', in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), ''

'' No. 15, New Year 1984, pp. 25 - 29, * ''Scottish Painting: Ramsay to Raeburn'', in Parker, Geoffrey (ed.), ''

'' No. 17, Summer 1984, pp. 25 - 29, * ''Scottish Painting: The Later

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'', in Parker, Geoffrey (ed.), ''

'' No. 19, Winter 1984, pp. 25 - 27,

References

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