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JOHN MACALLAN SWAN (1847-1910)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 179 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN MACALLAN SWAN (1847-1910)  ,
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English painter and sculptor, received his
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art training first in England at the Worcester and
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Lambeth
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schools of art and the Royal Academy schools, and subsequently in Paris, in the studios of J . L . Ger6me and E . Fremiet . He began to exhibit at the Academy in 1878, and was elected associate in 1894 and academician in 1005 . He was appointed a member of the Dutch
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Water-Colour Society in x885; and associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1896 and full member in 1899 . A master of the oil, water-colour and
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pastel mediums, an accomplished ' An enormous amount of labour has been bestowed upon the Hirundinidae by R . B . Sharpe (Cat . B . Brit . Illus. x .

85-21o), and in the finely-illustrated Monograph which he and C . W .

Wyatt have published (2 vols . 4to,
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London, 1885-1894) . painter and a skilful draughtsman, he ranks also as a sculptor on a large scale of electric
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lighting by means of glow lamps . of distinguished ability . He has treated the human figure with In another method devised by him for the manufacture of filaments, collodion was squirted into a coagulating solution and the tough threads thus obtained carbonized by heat . He also devoted attention to apparatus for measuring electric currents, to the improvement of accumulators and to the conditions governing the electro-deposition of metals . He was elected a
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fellow of the Royal Society in 1894, and served as president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1898–1899 and of the Society of Chemical Industry in 1901 . In the last-named
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year he received the honorary degree of D.Sc. from Durham University, and he was knighted in 1904 .

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