William Simson (1798/99 – 29 August 1847) was a Scottish portrait, landscape and subject painter.
Biographyedit
Simson was born at Dundee in 1798/99.[1] He studied under Andrew Wilson at the Trustees' Academy on Picardy Place in Edinburgh, and his early pictures of landscape and marine subjects found quick sales. He then turned his attention to figure painting, producing the Twelfth of August in 1829, which was followed by Sportsmen Regaling and a Highland Deer-stalker in 1830.[2]
Once finished his studies at the Trustees Academy, he adopted a teaching role there, his pupils including Andrew SomervilleRSA.[3]
In 1830 he was elected as a member of the Scottish Academy. Having acquired some means by portrait-painting, he spent three years in Italy. On his return in 1838 he settled in London, where he exhibited his Camaldolese monk showing Relics, Cimabue and GiottoDutch Family and Columbus and his Child at the Convent of Santa María de la Rábida.[2]
Simson was most talented as a landscapist; his Solway Moss Sunset, exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy of 1831 and now in the National Gallery in Edinburgh, ranks as one of the finest examples of the early Scottish school of landscape. His elder brother George (1791–1862), a portrait-painter, was also a member of the Royal Scottish Academy, and his younger brother David (died 1874) practised as a landscape-painter.[2]
^Millar, A. H. (2004). "Simson, William (1798/9–1847)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25609. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ abcdOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Simson, William". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 137.
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