William Baxter Collier Fyfe (10 July 1835 - 15 September 1882) was a Scottish genre and portrait painter. He was born at

Dundee Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...

in 1835. He became at an early age a student of the

Royal Scottish Academy The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) is the country’s national academy of art. It promotes contemporary Scottish art. The Academy was founded in 1826 by eleven artists meeting in Edinburgh. Originally named the Scottish Academy, it became the ...

, and exhibited his first picture of importance, ''Queen Mary resigning her Crown at Loch Leven Castle,'' in the Exhibition of 1861; but this was surpassed in later years by ''The Raid of Ruthven.'' In 1863 he settled in London, and from that time onward was busily engaged with portraiture, which he varied with landscapes and genre subjects of interest and merit. Some of his most important portraits are those of the Earl and Countess of Dufferin, Admiral Grenfell, Alderman Sir William McArthur, Dr. Lorimer, and John Faed, R.S.A. He died suddenly at his residence in St John's Wood, London in 1882.5

Works

His best-known genre pictures are: *''A Girl of the Period''. *''On Household Cares intent''. *''What can a Young Lassie dae wi' an Auld Man?'' *''A Good Catholic''. *''Wandering Minstrels''. *''A Quiet Christmas''.

References

* 1835 births 1882 deaths 19th-century Scottish painters Scottish male painters British genre painters Artists from Dundee 19th-century Scottish male artists {{Scotland-painter-stub