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Robert Reid
American Impressionist artist
born 1862 - died 1929
Student of: Gustave Clarence Rodolphe
Boulanger (1824-1888),
Jules Joseph
Lefebvre (1836-1911).
Reid Robert (1842-1904), merchant and politician, was born on 18
October 1842 at Leven, Fifeshire, Scotland, second son of Robert Reid,
bookseller, and his wife Catherine, née Lambert. The family migrated to
Victoria, arriving in April 1855 on the Ralph Waller, after barely
surviving collision with an iceberg. When his father died weeks later,
Robert, not yet 13, became the support of his mother and five sisters.
He was first a shop clerk in Collins Street, Melbourne, then at
Ballarat, but the news of his having to work on the Sabbath outraged his
mother's 'strong Scottish Christian opinions', and he was peremptorily
recalled. He walked back to Melbourne to keep his £5 pay intact.
View artworks’ titles of oil painting old master Reid Robert USA
1862-1929
2 Hillside in Summer
4 A Summer Girl
4 Autumn Landscape |
