Robert Macaulay Stevenson (1854 – 1952) was a

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painter associated with the Glasgow Boys.

Biography

Robert Macaulay Stevenson was born in Glasgow in 1854. He was one of four sons and three girls born to Jessie Macaulay and John Stevenson, an engineer. His brother

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was a Liberal politician, Lord Provost of Glasgow and Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. Stevenson initially studied engineering however later changed to study art at the

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. He was influenced by the French style of painting in particular the work of the Barbizon school and especially by the French portrait and landscape painter

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. In 1881 he exhibited at the gallery of Kay & Reid in Glasgow. He worked from studios in Glasgow, at Montreuil-sur-Mer in France, at Kirkcudbright, and at

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, near Milngavie. In 1890 Stevenson married Jean Shields. She died giving birth to their daughter Jean Macaulay Stevenson. On 30 April 1902 Stevenson married the Scottish artist Stansmore Dean. Stevenson died in 1952.

Awards

* Gold medal at the first Munich Secession exhibition, 1893. * Diploma of honour at the second

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('' Exposición General de Bellas Artes'') in Barcelona, 1894. * Silver medal at Brussels International Exposition, 1897.

References

External links

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for Robert Macaulay Stevenson at ''Who's Who in Glasgow in 1909'', Glasgow Digital Library, Centre for Digital Library Research, University of Strathclyde 1854 births 1952 deaths Artists from Glasgow Scottish landscape painters Scottish watercolourists Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art Glasgow School {{Scotland-painter-stub