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See also:ROBERT See also:BROUGH (1872-1905) , See also:British painter, was See also:born at Invergordon, See also:Ross-See also:shire . He was educated at See also:Aberdeen, and, whilst apprenticed for over six years as lithographer to Messrs Gibb & Co., attended the See also:night classes at the See also:local See also:art school . He then entered the Royal Scottish See also:Academy, and in the first See also:year took the See also:Stuart See also:prize for figure See also:painting, the See also:Chalmers painting bursary, and the Maclaine-Walters See also:medal for See also:corn-position . After two years in See also:Paris under J . P . See also:Laurens and-See also:Benjamin-See also:Constant at See also:Julian's atelier, he settled in Aberdeen in 1894 as a portrait painter. and See also:political cartoonist . A portrait of Mr W . D . Ross first See also:drew See also:attention to his See also:talent in 1896, and in the following year he scored a marked success at the Royal Academy with his " Fantaisie en Folie," now at the See also:National See also:Gallery of British Art (See also:Tate Gallery) . Two of his paintings, " 'Twixt See also:Sun and See also:Moon " and " Childhood of St See also:Anne of See also:Brittany," are at the See also:Venice municipal gallery . See also:Brough's art is influenced by See also:Raeburn and by See also:modern See also:French training, but it strikes a very See also:personal See also:note . See also:Robert $rough met his See also:death from injuries received in a railway disaster in 1905, his See also:early death being a notable loss to British art .
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