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12 4 Robert Gemmell Hutchison RSA RWS (Scottish, 1855-1936) MOTHER TENDING TO CHILDREN oil on canvas 66 by 84in. (167.6 by 213.4cm) Frame Size: 72 by 88in. (182.9 by 223.5cm) Provenance: Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, 10 April 1999, lot 402; James Gallery, Dalkey; Private collection Robert Gemmell Hutchison was born in Edinburgh on 1 July 1855 the first son of George Hutchison, a brass-founder, and his wife Margaret Forman. After first training as a seal-engraver he was encouraged to pursue oil painting and trained under James Campbell Noble at the Trustees Academy on Picardy Place. He set up his own studio in 1878 and was instantly successful, exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1879 and at the Royal Academy in 1881. He shifted quickly from empty seascapes, largely of the Fife coast, to genre paintings, usually of young girls sitting on the coast. He was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1903 and a full member in 1911. He was also elected to the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. His first one-man show in London was in December 1928 at Barbizon House, when 34 of his pictures were displayed. He returned to Edinburgh in 1912, living at 8 St Bernards Crescent in the Stockbridge area. In the 1930s he spent time with his daughter at her home in Coldingham, painting at St. Abbs. He died at his daughter’s house on 22 August 1936. €20,000-€30,000 (£16,670-£25,000 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot4