Walter Duncan (painter)

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Walter Duncan
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Born(1848-12-05)5 December 1848
Hampstead Road, London, England
Died1932
Richmond, London, England
NationalityEnglish
Known forPainting

Walter Duncan (1848-1932) was a British painter and watercolorist.

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Biography

The Morning Walk, by 1910 Walter Duncan The morning walk.jpg
The Morning Walk, by 1910

He was born in London in 1848 to the artist Edward Duncan and Berthia née Huggins, the daughter of British marine painter William John Huggins. He studied art at the British Museum and the Heatherley School of Fine Art and served a seven-year apprenticeship at the Royal Academy of Arts. In 1874, he was elected an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society. [1] Proud of this distinction, he sometimes appended "A.R.W.S." to his name when he signed his works. [2]

In 1871, he married Harriet Charlotte Florence Pigott née Condy (1846-1880), the daughter of the painter Nicholas Matthews Condy. After her death, he remarried the daughter of an officer stationed in the North-Western Provinces. This led to a two-year stay in India. [1]

He died in 1932 in Richmond, London.

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References

  1. 1 2 Huish, Marcus B. (1904). "British Water-Color Art". The Fine Art Society. pp. 107–108. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  2. "The Morning Walk". Gilboy's. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  3. "Heathland Landscape". Nation Trust Collections. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  4. "The First Interview between Elizabeth Woodville and King Edward IV". Royal Collection Trust . Inventory no. 450217.
  5. "Duncan Landscapes". Craven Museum & Gallery. Retrieved 11 December 2017.

Bibliography

WRIGIT Christopher, GORDON Catherine Mary, SMITH Mary Peskett (2006), “Walter Duncan”, in IDEM British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections, New Haven 2006, Yale University Press, p. 310.