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McGregor, Robert, RSA

1847 – 1922

As a young boy Robert McGregor moved to Dunfermline with his father who worked in the damask industry. For a period Robert McGregor himself worked as a pattern designer before moving to Edinburgh to work as a book illustrator and to study at the Trustees Academy and the RSA Life School. He was to specialise in figure paintings largely of rural life and in his tonal approach to painting was influenced by the French and the Dutch schools. To a certain extent he was an inspiration to the Glasgow Boys. He travelled regularly to Normandy and Brittany and also to Holland and for a period he ran the "Edinburgh Ladies' Life School". He exhibited at the RSA Annual Exhibitions from 1872 until 1922, he became an Associate Member of the RSA in 1882 and an Academician in 1889. Marriage record, Edinburgh Newington, 1868-09-25 records him as a 21 year old batchelor Pattern Designer of [?....?] Street, Dunfermline, son of Peter McGregor, Pattern Designer (deceased) and Sarah Brown or McGregor. His spouse, Helen Roxburgh recorded as a 19 year old spinster, daughter of Charles Roxburgh, Artist, and Helen Walls or Roxburgh. They were married after Banns of the United Presbyterian Church, at 6 Minto Street, Edinburgh (ScotlandsPeople)



An image from the RSA collection.