(b Hamilton, 8 March 1864; d Lenzie, nr Glasgow, 5 June 1946). Son of (1) Thomas Annan. He studied chemistry and natural philosophy before entering the family photographic business, T. & R. Annan. In 1883 he was sent to Vienna to learn the technique of 'heliogravure' or photogravure from KAREL KL?C, for which his father had acquired the British patent rights and in which he was to produce most of his best work. James Craig Annan received no formal artistic training but associated with contemporary Glasgow painters and etchers, including his friends Sir David Young Cameron (1865-1945), Muirhead Bone and William Strang, whose work, like his, was influenced by the graphic style of Whistler. In 1892 Annan and Cameron visited the Netherlands. On his return Annan produced photogravures (or 'monotones' as he called them), influenced by the Hague school and by Dutch 17th-century masters, such as Utrecht Pastoral (1892; see 1986 exh. cat., p. 39) and On a Dutch Shore (see M. Haworth-Booth, p. 170), both exhibited at the Annan Gallery at 230 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow.

Part of the Annan family

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(1744–95)

Edinburgh-born architect who achieved fame with his design for Edinburgh New Town (1766). In 1786 he published Plan for improving the City of Edinburgh. He was the architect of St James Square (1773—demolished), the Palladian Physicians' Hall, George Street (1775—demolished), and the Old Observatory, Calton Hill (1776–92).

Bibliography

• Colvin (1995)
• J. Craig (1786)
• Youngson (1966)

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Annan, James Craig (1864-1946), Scottish photographer, son of Thomas, and at the turn of the 19th century an international figure in photography's battle for recognition as an art in its own right. His work was exhibited in Europe and the USA and widely reproduced in photographic journals. In 1894 he was elected to the Linked Ring. His article on the hand camera in Amateur Photographer of March 1896 was republished in France and Belgium and quoted by Stieglitz in the 1897 American Annual of Photography.

Annan specialized in the reproduction of works of art in the Glasgow family firm, T. & R. Annan, using the photogravure process he had learned from Karl Klič (Klietsch). He manipulated his own images on the photogravure plate before they were printed. The figures in his tiny Beach at Zandvoort (1892) almost resemble notes of music along a slanting line. He caught the slight movement of a white horse below Stirling Castle (1906), and the glance of The Etching Printer: William Strang (1902) assessing his etching plate. His portrait of C. R. Mackintosh has become the icon for the architect and designer. Anne Macbeth (c.1908) appears in full Glasgow style, her collar heavily embroidered with hearts and roses. About 1890 Annan made photogravures of Hill and Adamson calotypes, and by lending these to exhibitions and supplying prints to Camera Work he helped in the rediscovery of these early masterpieces.

— William Buchanan

Bibliography

• Buchanan, W., The Art of the Photographer J. Craig Annan (1992).
• Buchanan, W., J. Craig Annan: Selected Texts and Biblography (1994)

Craig, Maurice James (1919- ), poet and architectural historian. Born in Belfast and educated at Cambridge, he wrote The Volunteer Earl (1948), a life of Charlemont. Poetry collections include Black Swans (1941) and Some Way for Reason (1948). Along with Dublin 1660-1860 (1952), his architectural studies include Classic Irish Houses of the Middle Size (1976), Architecture of Ireland from the Earliest Times to 1880 (1982), and a life of James Gandon. He has also written on Irish Bookbindings 1600-1800 (1954).

1748–1812, British soldier, governor of Canada (1807–11), b. Gibraltar. He served in the British army from 1763, fighting in the American Revolution and later holding posts in Africa and India. In 1807 he was appointed governor of Canada and lieutenant governor of Lower Canada (Quebec). His lack of sympathy with representative government and with the French Canadians found expression in his dissolution (1809) of the assembly of Lower Canada and in the imprisonment of the sponsors of the newly established journal Le Canadien. His arbitrary methods served only to consolidate the position of the French Canadians. Craig was replaced for reasons of health by Sir George Prevost.

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