Scottish Artists to 1914
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of around 630 works by Scottish Victorian artists which date from around 1837 and 1900. This collection contains around 320 oil paintings, 250 watercolours or drawings and 60 prints by Scottish Victorian artists, with the exception of The Glasgow Boys, who are the subject of a separate study. Scottish landscape painters are also covered under a separate study however worth mention here are the two painters from this period who immortalized the Scottish scenery: Horatio McCulloch (1805–67) and William McTaggart (1835–1910). Other Scottish landscape painters include Joseph Denovan Adam (1842–96) and the watercolourist William Leighton Leitch (1804–83). The splendid results of Leitch's European trip to Italy and his sketching tours in Great Britain are all represented in the collection. Such foreign travel also influenced the subject-matter of another notable Scottish artist, John Phillip (1817–67) with his exotic scenes of everyday life in Spain. David Wilkie (1785–1841) achieved tremendous popularity with his paintings of Scottish village life and his contemporary, Sir William Allan (1782–1850), was one of the first Scottish artists to paint Scottish history subjects. Notable examples in the collection of artists depicting such subjects come from James Drummond (1816–77), Sir George Harvey (1806–76), Thomas Duncan (1807–45) and Robert Herdman (1829–88). Sir William Quiller Orchardson (1835–1910) and John Pettie (1839–93) moved to London in 1862 and made a name for themselves specializing in historical costume genre, which was extremely popular with their middle-class patrons. Fairy painting was also a popular subject amongst Victorian artists and Scotland's leading exponent in this field was Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901).
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