SIR DAVID MUIRHEAD BONE N.E.A.C., H.R.W.S.
(1876 – 1953)
“The Bay of Coruna, Spain”
Ink & Watercolour. 5” x 7 ¾” (129 x 197mm)
Provenance:
Ruskin Gallery, Stratford-on-Avon. IMAGE
Sir
David Muirhead Bone was born in Glasgow on 23rd
March 1876. He was an etcher and
painter and the son of a journalist. He
also trained as an Architect. He studied
art at the Glasgow School of Art under Archibald Kay and was greatly inspired
by Meryon and Whistler. During the First World War he worked as
Official War Artist on the Western Front where he produced pencil and chalk
images, many of which were reproduced as lithographs by the War Office. He also worked as Official Admiralty Artist
from 1939 – 1946. He was a Trustee of the National Gallery, the
Tate Gallery and the Imperial War Museum. His architectural works which recorded London’s development, and also in
1909 the publication of Campbell Dodgson’s catalogue
aisonne of his prints made him the most
sought after printmaker after Whistler during the first quarter of the 20th
century.
He also produced some fine book illustrations,
one of his best known being Old Spain. He worked extensively in Britain but also in France, Holland, Italy, Spain and Sweden. He was the father of the artist Stephen Bone. In 1902 he was elected Member of the New
English Art Club and in 1937 he was knighted.
He lived in Glasgow in 1897, Ayr in 1900, London in 1902 and
Petersfield, Hants in 1913 and exhibited his work at the Royal Academy, the
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Scottish Academy,
the New English Art Club, the Fine Art Society, Glasgow Institute of the Fine
Arts, Grosvenor Gallery, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Manchester City Art
Gallery, Abbey Gallery, Thomas Agnew & Sons Gallery, Beaux Art Gallery, Brook Street Art
Gallery, Carfax & Co. Gallery (where he held his first one-man show),
Colnaghi & Co. Galleries, Goupil Gallery, International Society, Redfern
Gallery and Arthur Tooth and Sons Gallery.
He died in Oxford on 21st
October 1953.
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