Peter Graham RA (1836-1921) was a painter born in Edinburgh who trained at the Trustees` Academy in the Scottish capital under Robert Scott Lauder. Although he worked on figure subjects at first, a holiday in Deeside in 1859 inspired him to turn towards landscape painting. Having been well received at the Royal Scottish Academy where he started exhibiting in 1855, he also made a name for himself in England, becoming an Associate of the Royal Academy in London in 1877 and he was elected a full member at the end of 1881 and a Senior Royal Academician in 1919. Although he owned a large house called `Westoun` in St Andrew`s, Fife, he spent half the year at a house in Buckinghamshire.
Graham was also elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Academy and also showed at Agnew`s, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, South Wales Art Society, and Arthur Tooth and Sons. Examples of his work are in the collections of Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow Museums, Fife Council, National Museum of Wales, Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Atkinson Art Gallery, Manchester City Art Gallery, Ferens Art Gallery, Guildhall Art Gallery, Rochdale Arts and Heritage Service, Laing Art Gallery, Dundee Art Galleries and Museums, Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Tate, and Gallery Oldham.
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