Robert Brough
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Robert Brough
(b Invergordon, Highland, 20 March 1872; d Sheffield, 21 Jan 1905). Scottish painter. He studied in the early 1890s at Aberdeen School of Art, at the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and in Paris under Benjamin Constant. He returned in 1894 to Aberdeen, where he produced numerous portraits before moving to London in 1897, the year in which he exhibited Fantaisie en folie (London, Tate). Thereafter he exhibited with the Royal Society of Arts and with the Royal Academy from 1901. In 1900 he won the Silver Medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, and in 1904 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy.
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Robert Brough
This article is about the Scottish painter. For the English writer, see Robert Barnabas Brough.
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Robert Brough (1872 – 21 January 1905) was a Scottish painter born in Invergordon, Ross and Cromarty.
He was educated in Aberdeen, and, whilst apprenticed for over six years as lithographer to Messrs Gibb & Co., attended the night classes at Gray's School of Art. He then entered the Royal Scottish Academy, and in the first year took the Stuart prize for figure painting, the Chalmers painting bursary, and the Maclame-Walters medal for composition.
After two years in Paris under J. P. Laurens and Benjamin-Constant at Julian's atelier, he settled in Aberdeen in 1894 as a portrait painter and political cartoonist. A portrait of Mr. W. D. Ross first drew attention to his talent in 1896, and in the following year he scored a marked success at the Royal Academy with his Fantaisie en Folie, which he bequeathed to the National Gallery of British Art (now the Tate gallery). Two of his paintings, Twixt Sun and Moon and Childhood of St. Anne of Brittany, were at the Venice municipal gallery. Brough's art was influenced by Henry Raeburn and by modern French training, but it strikes a very personal note.
Brough died from injuries received in a railway disaster in 1905.
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