Born in Glasgow to middle-class parents, [Macdougall] was educated first of all at an elite public school, the Glasgow Academy ..., and later, in the mid-1880s, at the Académie Julian in Paris.... from the end of the 80s he became a versatile painter producing landscapes, portraits and historical and genre scenes....Macdougall’s paintings are remarkably conservative and closely reflect the traditional approaches of his French masters....
Conventional image-making was only a part of his career, however. In addition to working as a jobbing painter, Macdougall practised as an etcher, wallpaper designer, wood-block artist, print-maker and illustrator, and it was in graphic art, rather than his work in paint, that he displayed a degree of adventurousness. — Simon Cooke
Bibliography
Armour, Margaret. The Homes and Early Haunts of Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Riverside Press/W. H. White & Co., 1895. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of Toronto Library.
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