Evelyne Oughtred Buchanan, née Watson, (21 January 1883–21 November 1978), was a British artist, notable for her landscape paintings.

Biography

Buchanan was born in

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in the north-east of England. She attended school there before spending a single term at the

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after which she moved to

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in Cornwall. There, during 1910, she spent four months at the art school run by

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and

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. Although largely self-taught as an artist, Buchanan later studied portraiture with Robert Heriot Westwater in Scotland and would eventually settle in

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. She abandoned painting for some years but resumed doing so in 1933 and continued until the early 1970s when her eyesight began to fail. She died in an Edinburgh nursing home on 21 November 1978.''The Times'', 22 November 1978. Buchanan was elected a member of the

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in 1937 and the

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in 1939. She also exhibited at the

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, the

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and with the

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. In 1971 she held a joint exhibition in Edinburgh with her daughter, the artist Elspeth Buchanan, and her son-in-law, Nicholas Horsfield.

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hold examples of her paintings.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Buchanan, Evelyne Oughtred 1883 births 1979 deaths 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art Artists from Edinburgh People from Stockton-on-Tees