• The Scottish Painters' Society was a trade union representing painters and decorators in Scotland. The union was founded in 1898, as the Scottish National...
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  • The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) is a Scottish art society established in 1876. The current patron is Charles III, Duke of...
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  • The Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators (ASPD) was a trade union in the United Kingdom which existed between 1886 and 1970. The union had its...
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  • Woolsorters' Society Power Loom Carpet Weavers' and Textile Workers' Association Prudential Staff Union Railway Clerks' Association Scottish Painters' Society Scottish...
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    was a Scottish playwright, screenwriter, artist and designer. He wrote The Slab Boys Trilogy, plays which explore working-class life in Scotland, and the...
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  • (1944-7) Scottish art Women artists Glasgow Society of Lady Artists Royal Scottish Academy Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour Society of Scottish...
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  • Museums, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Scottish Parliament Art Collection, Southampton...
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  • The Society of Eight was an artistic grouping of Scottish painters. The Society set up its own gallery space in Edinburgh to exhibit their work. It was...
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    John Duncan (1866–1945) was a Scottish Symbolist painter. Much of his work, apart from portraits, depicted Arthurian legends, Celtic folklore, and other...
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    Adam Bruce Thomson (category 20th-century Scottish painters)
    the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour 1949–56 Treasurer of the RSA 1956–63 President of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour...
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    The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), known until 1991 as the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, is a leading art institution based...
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  • James Clunie (category Scottish Labour MPs)
    Born in Lower Largo, Clunie worked as a house painter and decorator. He joined the Scottish Painters' Society, serving on its executive, and also came to...
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    David Roberts RA RBA (24 October 1796 – 25 November 1864) was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt...
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    March 1784 – 29 April 1868) was a Scottish engraver and painter. Son of the Surveyor-General of Excise of Scotland, Burnet was born either in Edinburgh...
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    Samuel Peploe (category 19th-century Scottish painters)
    Scottish Post-Impressionist painter, noted for his still life works and for being one of the group of four painters that became known as the Scottish...
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    Stanley Cursiter (category 20th-century Scottish painters)
    to Scotland. He served as the keeper (1919–1930), then director (1930–1948), of the National Galleries of Scotland, and as HM Limner and Painter in Scotland...
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  • The Edinburgh School (category 20th-century Scottish painters)
    exhibition bodies: the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW). They...
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  • Philosophical Society of Glasgow 1802 Royal Philatelic Society London 1869 Royal Photographic Society 1853 Royal Scottish Academy 1826 Royal Scottish Geographical...
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  • at the Royal Glasgow Institute, at the Royal Scottish Academy, and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. In Liverpool he exhibited at...
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    elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) in 1885, became an associate member of the Royal Scottish Academy (ARSA) in 1896...
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  • Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators (ASPD). The merged union was initially known as the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Painters and Builders...
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    The Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (in French: La Société Canadienne de Peintres en Aquarelle), founded in 1925, is considered to be Canada's...
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  • James Proudfoot (category Scottish portrait painters)
    James Proudfoot (1908–1974), was a Scottish-born British painter, known for his portraits and landscapes. He was active in London, from 1937 until 1971...
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  • azure. Duncan Macmillan, Scottish Art, 1460–1990 (Mainstream, 1990), p. 47. Michael Apted & Susan Hannabuss, Painters in Scotland: A Biographical Dictionary...
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  • visit to Scotland by an English herald since 1639. In 2001 it registered with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. In 2003 the society commissioned...
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    RBA (1774 in Ayr – 1855 in Folkestone) was a Scottish landscape and marine painter, president of the Society of British Artists in 1827. Wilson was apprenticed...
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    Scottish Enlightenment (Scots: Scots Enlichtenment, Scottish Gaelic: Soillseachadh na h-Alba) was the period in 18th- and early-19th-century Scotland...
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    was invited by the Scottish artists, who had resolved to found a Scottish Academy, to join it as an associate (see Royal Scottish Academy). Harvey's first...
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    William Dalrymple (category Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society)
    the curator of Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707–1857, a major show of the late Mughal painting for the Asia Society in New York, which ran from...
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    Francis Cadell (artist) (category 20th-century Scottish painters)
    Campbell Boileau Cadell RSA (12 April 1883 – 6 December 1937) was a Scottish Colourist painter, renowned for his depictions of the elegant New Town interiors...
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