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Dr Freya Spoor is an art historian specialising in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Scottish and British art. She is a curator at the National Galleries of Scotland and co-curated the exhibition Lavery on Location on Glasgow Boy Sir John Lavery in 2024.

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This volume introduces key artists and engages with the critical debates and artistic theories that were circulating in the second half of the nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of Art History and Scottish History.

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Volume II

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

General Introduction

Volume II Introduction

Part 1. Art Education

1. Martin Hardie, John Pettie R.A.

2. John Lavery, The Life of a Painter

3. Edward Pinnington, Robert Brough - Painter

4. Alison Mowat, James Cadenhead RSA RSW 1858-1927*: His Letters Home as a Young Man*

5. James Paterson, Art Student Life and Concluding Part of a Lecture on Art Students in Paris MS lectures

6. Academy Art Exhibition - a Fine Display

7. Letter from Christina J Stark to Francis H Newbery 29th April 1905

Part 2. Networking and Artists Colonies

8. Sidney Gilpin, Sam Bough, R. S. A.; some account of his life and works

9. Letters from John Pettie with William McTaggart

10. Martin Hardie, John Pettie R.A.

11. Edward Pinnington, George Paul Chalmers RSA and the Art of His Time

12. Sir James L. Caw, Sir James Guthrie, P.R.S.A., LL.D.: A Biography

13. Morley Roberts, A Colony of Artists

14. Robert Louis Stevenson, Fontainebleau: Village Communities of Painters - IV

15. Walter Shaw-Sparrow, John Lavery and his Work

16. A.S. Hartrick R.W.S, A Painters Pilgrimage through Fifty Years

17. Agnes McKay, Arthur Melville: a Scottish Impressionist 1855-1904

18. Letters from James Paterson and E.A. Hornel 1892

19. Letters from Bessie MacNicol to E.A. Hornel

Part 3. Art Institutions and Exhibition Culture

20. Opening of the Tenth Exhibition of the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 30th January 1871

21. First Annual Report of the Paisley Art Institute, constituted 1876

22. Paisley Art Exhibition

23. Aberdeen Artists Society - the Forthcoming Exhibition

24. George R. Halkett, Special Exhibition of Scottish Art

25. Anon. How I became an A.R.S.A: A Chapter of Autobiography

26. George Henry, The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours

27. C.P. Anstruther, Woman's Work in Art Industries

28. Glasgow Lady Artists

29. A. K. Brown, The Glasgow Art Club: A Retrospect

30. Anon, 'The Glasgow Art Club

31. Graphic Arts Association Annual Report 1891

32. Art at the Glasgow International Exhibition. Painting

33. Agnes McKay, Arthur Melville: A Scottish Impressionist 1855-1904

34. The Grosvenor Gallery

35. Walter Armstrong, Current Art. The Grosvenor Gallery

Part 4. Evolving Styles 1850-1900

36. John Ruskin, Lectures on Architecture and Painting, Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853

37. Letter fragment Robert Scott Lauder to Unknown, [1853].

38. John Ballantyne, What is Pre-Raphaelitism?

39. The Thirty Eighth Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy

40. Iconoclast, Scottish Art and Artists in 1860

41. Veri Vindex (George Reid and John Forbes White), Thoughts on Art and Notes on the Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of 1868

42. Sydney Hodges, Artists' Haunts - Off the track in Scotland

43. W.M. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Peter Graham R.A

44. Edward Pinnington, George Paul Chalmers RSA and the Art of His Time

45. P. McOmish Dott, Notes Technical and Explanatory on the Art of Mr William McTaggart as Displayed in his Exhibition of 32 Pictures

46. J. L. Caw, A Phase of Scottish Art

47. R.A.M. Stevenson, The Art of Velasquez

48. C. J. Holmes, The Glasgow School at Knightsbridge

Part 5. Scots Abroad

49. The Last Work of John Phillip, R.A.

50. Letter from George Reid to John Forbes White, 10 February 1869

51. William Robertson Smith and George Reid, Notes and Sketches

52. Agnes McKay, Arthur Melville: a Scottish Impressionist 1855-1904

53. Letters from Thomas Millie Dow and to Abott Handerson Thayer

54. E. A. Hornel, "Japan", Lecture Delivered on His Behalf to Audience at the Corporation Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1895

55. James Paterson, Impressions of Tenerife, MS Lecture

56. Sir John Lavery, The Life of a Painter

57. Fritz von Ostini, Scottish Pictures - What the Germans Think of Them

58. Charles M. Kurtz, The Glasgow School: The Men and Their Work

Part 6. What is Scottish Art?

59. Scottish Art and Artists

60. G. Baldwin Brown, Old and New in Art

61. James Stanley Little, W. Q. Orchardson: his Life and Work

62. Veri Vindex [George Reid and John Forbes White], Thoughts on Art and Notes on the Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of 1868

63. A.H. Millar, Scottish Art

64. Anon, The Scottish School of Painting

65. James Paterson, Art in Scotland, dated 1876, MS lecture

66. James L. Caw, "The Present Condition of Art in Scotland", The Art Journal, (London: J. S. Virtue & Co., 1898), pp. 45-48

67. Anon, Varieties - Sir Daniel Macnee on Art

68. Sir William Fettes Douglas P.R.S.A. and the Edinburgh School of Art - Lady Artists

69. Anon, Art in the West of Scotland

70. Richard Muther, Whistler and the Scotch Artists

Illustrations

Volume II Bibliography

Index