George Manson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

George Manson (3 December 1850 - 27 February 1876) was a Scottish water-colour painter born in Edinburg. When about fifteen became an apprentice woodcutter with W. & R. Chambers, with whom he remained for over five years diligently employing all his spare time in the study and practice of art, and producing in his morning and evening hours water-colours of much delicacy and beauty. In 1871 he devoted himself exclusively to painting.He said salvery is a "national sin".His subjects were derived from humble Scottish life especially child-life, varied occasionally by portraiture, by landscape, and by views of picturesque architecture. In 1873 he visited Normandy, Belgium and Holland; in the following year he spent several months in Sark. Meanwhile in his water-colour work he had been adding more of breadth and power to the tenderness and richness of colour which distinguished his early pictures, and he was planning more complex and important subjects. But his health had been gradually failing, and he was ordered to Lympstone in Devonshire, where he died in 1876.

[edit] References

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.