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SIR DANIEL MACNEE (1806–1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 265 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR DANIEL MACNEE (1806–1882)  , Scottish portrait painter, was born at Fintry in
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Stirlingshire . At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed, along with Horatio Macculloch and Leitch the
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water-colour painter, to John Knox, a landscapist of some repute . He afterwards worked for a
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year as a lithographer, was employed by the Smiths of Cumnock to paint the ornamental lids of their planewood snuff-boxes, and, having studied in
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Edinburgh at the " Trustees' Academy," supporting himself meanwhile by designing and colouring
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book illustrations for Lizars the engraver, he established himself as an artist in
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Glasgow, where he became a fashionable portrait painter . He was in 1829 admitted a member of the Royal Scottish Academy; and on the
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death of
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Sir George Harvey in 1876 he was elected president, and received the honour of
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knighthood . From this period till his death, on the 18th of
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January 1882, he resided in Edinburgh, where his genial social qualities and his inimitable powers as a teller of humorous Scottish anecdote rendered him popular .

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