David
Law R.B.A., H.R.B.A., R.E. (1831 – 1902)
“St
Pauls from the Thames”
ORIGINAL
ETCHING. Signed in Pencil IMAGE
David Law was a landscape painter and etcher. He was born in 1831 in Edinburgh and studied at the Trustees’
Academy from 1845 to 1850. He was also
apprenticed to an engraver. He worked
for 20 years as an engraver in the Ordnance Office in Southampton before resigning to concentrate
on painting watercolours. He painted
Scottish, Welsh and Southern landscapes and often made etchings from his own watercolours. He exhibited his work at Thomas Agnew and Sons Art Gallery,
the Royal Society of Artists Birmingham, Dudley Gallery, Dowdeswell Gallery,
the Fine Art Society, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Walker Art Gallery
Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery, the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of
British Artists, of which he was a Member,
the Royal Society of Painter Etchers and Engravers, of which he was a
Member, the Royal Hibernian Academy, the
Royal Institute and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in
Watercolours. Examples of work by David
Law are in Dundee City Art Gallery and Sydney Art Gallery,
Australia. He died in Worthing in 1901.
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