ARCHIBALD ELLIOT HASWELL MILLER RSW (1887-1979)

1019

Watercolour

Signed and dated 1927

37.50 cm wide   55.00 cm high

14.76 inches wide  21.65 inches high

Given by the artist to his National Galleries of Scotland work colleague, Lucy Doris Anderson on the occasion of her marriage to Harold Thomas Bowden, 14 January 1949, and thence by descent.

Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours;
Stirling Fine Art Association, 1932

Haswell Miller was born in Glasgow where he studied at the School of Art under Maurice Greiffenhagen and Jean Delville, 1906-9, then becoming a probationary Professor. He travelled to study in Paris, Vienna, Munich and Berlin. He taught at Glasgow School of Art for 20 years from 1910, apart from World War I when he served with the 7th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry in Gallipoli, Palestine and France and was awarded the Military Cross. He became Keeper and Deputy Director the National Galleries of Scotland, 1930-52. He also held positions with the Royal Fine Arts Commission, National Buildings Record and Scottish Council. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours and elsewhere. The Imperial War Museum and Glasgow Museum and Art Galleries hold his work.

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