Nisbet, Robert Buchan RSA, RSW (Scottish)
1857 - 1942
Sheep Grazing, watercolor, signed initials l/l,
6.5"x11.75" sight,
10" x 15.25"
frame.
About the Painting:Very good condition; ready to hang and enjoy! The painting was acquired from a Scottish
collector. A prime example of the artist's
best work.
About the Artist: Robert Buchan Nisbet RSA RSW (1857-1942)
was born in Edinburgh, the son of a house
painter, he worked at first in a shipping
office before turning to art around 1880.
he joined his older brother, also a well
listed artist, Pollok Sinclair Nisbet, in
Venice c1881 before enrolling at the RSA
schools 1882-1885. He later studied in Paris
under Bouguereau. For a short period he painted
in oil, but soon gave this up to paint solely
in watercolour, in which he was influenced
by the broad styles of de Wint and Cox. He
was elected to the Royal Scottish Society
of painters in watercolour in 1887 and became
a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy
in 1902. In The Dictionary of Scottish Painters Halsby and Harris submit that "his
best works are his smaller landscapes in
which he achieved rich, sonorous tones and
great sense of light." Halsby likens
Nisbet's work to that of the Borders artist
Tom Scott who was also a fantastic watercolourist.
Note: In 1970 I visited the achieves of the Kelvingrove
Gallery and Museum in Glasgow to view watercolors
by Robert Buchan Nisbet. The curator shared
a box of unframed watercolors by Nisbet,
one of which was similar to the painting
featured here. It, too, was initialed by
the artist who's work, like de Wint, is "signed
all over" - Nisbet being distinctive
among Scottish watercolorists. The presentation
of the painting will be enhanced by re-framing
with a relatively wide mat and a narrow molding.
$ 450.00
inclusive of S/H/I*
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outside the continental United States.
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