Name George Reid Role Artist | Died April 11, 1928 | |
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George Ogilvy Reid (1851-1928) was a Scottish landscape and portrait artist operating in the late 19th and early 20th century. He lived his entire life in Leith, the harbour area of Edinburgh.
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Life
Born in Leith in 1851, he originally studied to be an engraver.
He later studied art at the Trustee’s Academy on Picardy Place (the forerunner of the Edinburgh College of Art).
In October 1891 he received a Royal Commission to paint the baptism of Queen Victoria’s grandchild, Prince Maurice of Battenburg.
In 1896 he was sculpted by David Watson Stevenson.
He died on 11 April 1928. He is buried near the north-west corner of Rosebank Cemetery in Edinburgh with his wife, Christian MacNab. Their daughter, Christian MacPherson Reid (d.1937) also lies with them.