John Macwhirter Figurative Paintings
British, 1839-1911
John MacWhirter (1839-1911) was a Scottish landscape painter from Slateford, Edinburgh. MacWhirter settled in London in the 1870's before coming to America in 1877 and spending several years in California. Internationally he was known as an etcher and was member of the London's Royal Academy. He died in London in 1911. His work is in several museum and institution collections including The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh and he had work exhibited in the 1893 World's Columbian Expo in Chicago.to
1
1
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
1
1
1
1
2
467
319
256
229
1
1
Artist: John Macwhirter
Glen Cloy Arran - Scottish Victorian art Landscape oil painting man and dog
By John Macwhirter
Located in Hagley, England
This superb Victorian Scottish landscape oil painting is by noted landscape artist John MacWhirter. Painted circa 1880 the location is Glen Cloy, Arran, a very popular walking and holidaying destination along with the Fairy Glen. The composition is a stream in the foreground with a man and his dog approaching. Either side of them are rolling hills giving way to cloud enveloped mountains in the background. The palette of greens and brown of the flora and fauna is so rich and varied. An excellent example of Scottish Victorian art and of MacWhirter's work.
Signed lower right.
Provenance. Sotheby's 26.8.86 lot 694.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 38 inches by 24 inches unframed, in good condition.
Frame. Housed in a gilt swept frame, 50 inches by 37 inches in good condition.
John MacWhirter RA (27 March 1839 in Slateford, Edinburgh - 28 January 1911 in London) was a Scottish landscape painter. John was the third of four children. One of his elder sisters, Agnes MacWhirter was also a noted artist of still lifes. He attended a school in Colinton, and after his father's death was apprenticed to Oliver & Boyd, booksellers in Edinburgh. He stayed there for only a few months and then in 1851 enrolled at the Trustees Academy under Robert Scott Lauder and John Ballantyne (1815–97). He spent long periods sketching and studying nature outdoors. His first painting to be exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy at age 14, was 'Old Cottage at Braid'. In 1880, he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Academy. Exploring and painting abroad he visited Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, Norway and the U.S.A. - the Alps being a great inspiration. Of a drawing of wildflowers, Ruskin wrote i have never seen anything like it. Some of these sketches were later purchased by Ruskin and bequeathed to the Ashmolean, Oxford. He moved to London in 1867 and on 4 May 1893 was elected a Royal Academician. MacWhirter specialised in romantic landscapes with a great fondness for trees, spending much time in the hilly countryside of Perthshire. Initially, under the influence of John Everett Millais, he experimented with the detailed images of the Pre-Raphaelites, but later adopted a more sweeping style. His friendship with William McTaggart shows in his freedom of brush. With John Pettie...
Category
1880s Victorian John Macwhirter Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Related Items
Very Large British Oil depicting famous Naval battle
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: British School, second half 20th century, signed lower left 'Champion'
Title: a copy after de Loutherbourg's 1795 painting of Lord Howe's action of 1 June 1794 in th...
Category
20th Century Victorian John Macwhirter Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,424 Sale Price
30% Off
H 28 in W 40 in
Early 1800
s Scottish Oil Painting, Figures in Highland Landscape Golden Light
By Patrick Nasmyth
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Circle of Patrick Nasmyth (1787-1831) British
Title: A Highland Landscape with Figures in the foreground,
Medium: Oil on Card, Inscribed on a label verso
Size:
car...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian John Macwhirter Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,211 Sale Price
30% Off
H 5 in W 7.5 in
Large Signed Oil Painting Hunting Party on Horseback with Hounds
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: M.J Ruisdael 20th Century, British, signed
Title: A Hunting Scene
Medium: signed oil on canvas , framed
Size: 20 x 30 inches plus the frame.
Provenance: private ...
Category
20th Century Victorian John Macwhirter Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,621
H 20 in W 30 in D 1 in
19th Century seascape oil painting of Douglas Harbour, Isle of Man
By William Edward Webb
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
William Edward Webb
British, (1862-1903)
Douglas Harbour, Isle of Man
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 21.5 inches x 37.5 inches
Size including frame: 33 inches x 49 inches
A busy quayside painting by William Edward Webb of Douglas Harbour on the Isle of man. Fishermen in boats can be seen preparing to head ashore as other figures make their way along the quayside.
William Edward Webb was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in 1862 to William Benjamin Webb and Ellen Butler. His father was a printer and an artist and it is highly likely he received tuition from him. Following the death of his mother, his father remarried and moved the family to Manchester sometime after 1871.
By the 1880’s, Webb had started working as an artist and later set up a studio at 30 Exchange Buildings in Manchester. He began exhibiting at the Manchester City Art Gallery from 1890, where he showed more than 60 paintings during his lifetime. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy and Walker Art Gallery Liverpool from 1892. He married Clara Foster in 1899 and the couple lived at 1 Sylvan Grove, Chorlton Upon Medlock in South Manchester with their daughter Florrie. He became friends with the artist Walter Emsley (1860-1938) who also lived in Manchester.
Although he spent the rest of his life in Manchester, Webb travelled throughout the UK painting coastal and marine scenes around the main ports and harbours. He spent a great deal of time in the Isle of Mann painting numerous scenes along the coast including views of Peel and Douglas Harbour, subjects he frequently returned to. Webb painted in a highly distinctive style; loose and informal but which manages to retain the sense of perspective. He struggled with ill health and depression throughout his life which sadly led to his suicide 9 November, 1903. In 1974, a retrospective exhibition was held at The Old Customs House and Old Solent House in Lymington, which brought a new found interest in his work.
His paintings are now highly sought after and are represented in many collections and Museums including the Astley Hall...
Category
19th Century Victorian John Macwhirter Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$14,249
H 33 in W 49 in D 3.5 in
Antique British Marine Oil Painting Sailors in a Shipwreck Storm off the Coast
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: British School, early/ mid 19th century
Title: The Shipwreck in the Storm
Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 15.25 x 19.25 inches
canvas: 12 x 1...
Category
19th Century Victorian John Macwhirter Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,899
H 15.25 in W 19.25 in D 1 in
Fine Napoleonic Wars Period French Tall Ships at Sea, Signed Oil on canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 20th century, signed by Eug. Mavie
Title: Napoleonic War Ships at Sea, beautifully detailed with remarkable detailing.
Medium: oil on canvas, unfram...
Category
20th Century Victorian John Macwhirter Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,139 Sale Price
30% Off
H 20 in W 25.5 in
Announcement in Village Square mid 19th century
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Fine 19th century oil painting of a bustling Austrian/Germanic village with horse, rider and various figures outside an Inn, attributed to Arthur Georg Ramberg (1819-1879), well known for figurative genre paintings. The rider is carrying a bugle, apparently announcing news to the people; men are sitting by the table drinking, one with a raised stein. Women walking by stop to listen, a man carrying a sack has stopped to watch the rider, people are in the Inn doorway, and one is looking out the window. Children pause their playing. The scene is under a large tree beside the Inn; a whole community waiting for news.
There is a great deal of detail in the scene, tree and Inn house...
Category
19th Century Victorian John Macwhirter Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,300 Sale Price
50% Off
H 20 in W 22 in D 2 in
Large Victorian Norwich School Oil Thatched Cottages in Rural Landscape, framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Norwich School, circa 1876
Title: 'Norfolk Clay Lump and Thatched Cottages'.
Medium: oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 24 x 31 inches
Painting: 19 x 26 inches
Provenance: private collection, East Anglia...
Category
19th Century Victorian John Macwhirter Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,614 Sale Price
30% Off
H 24 in W 31 in D 1 in
Very Fine Victorian Scottish Signed Oil Painting Panoramic Loch Scene Mountains
By Charles Leslie
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Charles Leslie (British 19th century), signed and dated 1875
Title: The Panoramic Loch. Beautiful and majestic Scottish Highlands loch scene with figures walking alo...
Category
19th Century Victorian John Macwhirter Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,089 Sale Price
30% Off
H 19.5 in W 33.5 in
Fine 19th Century Victorian Oil Painting Angler in Scottish Highlands Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Scottish School, 19th century, indistinctly signed lower corner
Title: The Angler in the Scottish Highlands, beautiful landscape scene.
Medium: oil painting on canv...
Category
19th Century Victorian John Macwhirter Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,329 Sale Price
30% Off
H 16 in W 26 in
Mother
Daughter Walking Coastal Pathway, Antique English Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: British School, late 19th/ early 20th century
Title: Mother & Daughter walking along the coastal path, with the sea beside them.
Medium: oil painting on canvas, f...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian John Macwhirter Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,282 Sale Price
30% Off
H 19.5 in W 27.5 in D 1 in
Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones
By Philip Burne-Jones
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Christie’s, London, 3 March 1922, lot 46 (with The Tower of Babel);
James Nicoll
Private Collection
Sotheby’s, London, 29 March 1983, lot 157
Private Collection, New Yo...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian John Macwhirter Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
John Macwhirter figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic John Macwhirter figurative paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by John Macwhirter in oil paint, paint and more. Not every interior allows for large John Macwhirter figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 50 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of David Bates b.1840, Georgina Lara, and William Bromley. John Macwhirter figurative paintings prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $11,496 and tops out at $11,496, while the average work can sell for $11,496.
Artists Similar to John Macwhirter
Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)