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

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

Wyatt have published (2 vols . 4to, See also:London, 1885-1894) . painter and a skilful draughtsman, he ranks also as a sculptor on a large See also:scale of electric See also: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, See also:collodion was squirted into a coagulating See also:solution and the tough threads thus obtained carbonized by See also:heat . He also devoted See also: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 See also:fellow of the Royal Society in 1894, and served as See also:president of the Institution of See also:Electrical See also:Engineers in 1898–1899 and of the Society of Chemical See also:Industry in 1901 . In the last-named See also:year he received the honorary degree of D.Sc. from See also:Durham University, and he was knighted in 1904 .

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