ROBERT

See also:

• ROBERT BROUGH (1872-1905)

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