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SIR GEORGE REID (1841- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:GEORGE See also:REID (1841- )  , Scottish artist, was See also:born in See also:Aberdeen on the 31st of See also:October 1841 . He See also:developed an See also:early See also:passion for See also:drawing, which led to his being apprenticed in 1854 for seven years to Messrs See also:Keith & Gibb, lithographers in Aberdeen . In 1861 See also:Reid took lessons from an itinerantportrait-painter, See also:William Niddrie, who had been a See also:pupil of See also:James See also:Giles, R.S.A., and afterwards entered as a student in the school of the See also:Board of Trustees in See also:Edinburgh . He returned to Aberdeen to paint landscapes and portraits for any trifling sum which his See also:work could command . His first portrait to attract See also:attention, from its See also:fine quality, was that of See also:George See also:Macdonald, the poet and novelist, now the See also:property of the university of Aberdeen . His early landscapes were conscientiously painted in the open See also:air and on the spot . But Reid soon came to see that such work was inherently false, painted as the picture was See also:day after day under varying conditions of See also:light and shade . Accordingly, in 1865 he proceeded to See also:Utrecht to study under A . Mollinger, whose work he ad-mired, from its unity and simplicity . This See also:change in his method of viewing Nature was looked on as revolutionary by the Royal Scottish See also:Academy, and for some years his work found little favour in that See also:quarter; but other artists gradually adopted the See also:system of See also:tone-studies, which ultimately prevailed . Reid went to See also:Paris in 1868 to study under the figure painter Yvon; and he worked in 1872 with Josef Israels at the See also:Hague . From this See also:time forward Reid's success was continuous and marked .

He showed his versatility in landscape, as in his " Whins in See also:

Bloom," which combined See also:great breadth with fine detail; in See also:flower-pieces, such as his " See also:Roses," which were brilliant in rapid suggestiveness and force; but most of all in his portraits, which are marked by great individuality, and by fine insight into See also:character . His work in See also:black-and-See also:white, his admirable illustrations in brushwork of Edinburgh and its neighbourhood, and also his See also:pen-drawings, about which it has been declared that " his work contains all the subtleties and refinements of a most delicate See also:etching," must also be noted . Elected See also:Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 187o, Reid attained full membership in 1877, and took up his See also:residence in Edinburgh in 1882 . In 1891 he was elected See also:President—a See also:post which he held until 1902—receiving also the See also:honour of See also:knighthood, and he was awarded a See also:gold See also:medal at the Paris See also:Exhibition of 1900 . His See also:brother See also:Samuel (b . 1854) was also a painter and a writer of tales and See also:verse .

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