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Robert Weir Allan

Robert Weir Allan (1852 - 1942) was active/lived in Scotland, United Kingdom, England.  Robert Allan is known for Marine scene, fishing villages, portrait and landscape painting, etchig.

Robert Weir Allan, 1851 - 1942

Painter. Born in Glasgow, the son of a publisher and an amateur artist, Robert Allan studied in Glasgow and Paris (1875-80) before settling in London. He is noted particularly for his watercolours, his style influenced by the Impressionists.

He became a regular exhibitor at the French Salon, winning medals in 1899 and 1900. Scenes of N France were followed by works completed during trips abroad including Italy, the Netherlands and Spain as well as further afield to India (1891-2), Japan (1907) and N Africa (1911-2).

He also painted the fishing villages and cliffs of NE Scotland. He was commissioned to paint the portrait of the former Prime Minister David Lloyd George in 1934.

Allan was a friend of the artist Arthur Melville (1855 - 1904) and was visited by him in Paris in 1878.?


Source:
"Robert Weir Allan," website of Gazetteer for Scotland   ...  [Displaying 934 of 1199 characters.]  Artist bio

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