H: 65.5cm W: 78cm D: 3cm

Framed by the artist. Medium Oil on canvas.

Born in Dundee and educated at Harris Academy, he attended the Dundee School of Art from 1924-1926 and then Glasgow School of Art in 1927. He became Assistant Art Teacher at Glasgow School of Art 1930-1932. A series of portrait commissions brought him down to London in 1933. He was appointed Senior Art Lecturer in 1947 and remained at Shoreditch until 1954. Thereafter he had a number of part-time teaching posts, including Ealing School of Art, St Martin’s School of Art and the Sir John Cass School of Art Solo exhibitions 1930 and 1931 McClure Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland; 1932 Dundee, Scotland; 1932-33 Glasgow, Scotland; 1933 Whyte’s Gallery, Washington USA; 1939 Contemporary Scottish Art, Washington USA; 1954 Via Lima, Rome; 1955 Babuinetta Gallery, Rome; 1958 Everyman Foyer Gallery, Hampstead, London; 1959 Babuinetta Gallery, Rome (April and October); 1960 Everyman Foyer Gallery, Hampstead, London; 1961 Richmond Hill Gallery; 1961 Monseigneur, Marble Arch, London; 1961 Hyde Park Gallery; 1962 Everyman Foyer Gallery; 1963 New End Gallery, Hampstead, London; Boston & New York USA; 1972 Everyman Foyer Gallery, Hampstead, London; 1975 St Blaise Gallery, Stockwell College, Bromley; 1983 Grass Roots Gallery, Durban, South Africa; 1987 Lizard Gallery, Farnham The Royal Scottish Academy; Royal Institute of Fine Arts; Society of Scottish Painters; Contemporary Scottish Art; Leicester Gallery; Redfern Gallery; St George’s; Royal Society of British Artists; London Group; New English Art Club; Brighton 1948; Senefelder Club Exhibitions; Royal Institute of Oil Painters; National Society of Painters, Sculptors & Printmakers; Victoria & Albert Museum (1948: 150 Years of Lithography