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Mary Cameron (painter)

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to perfect her understanding of animal anatomy, and developed a particular skill for depicting horses. This reflected her early interest in unusual subject matter, and was helped by her ability to use her own horse as a model.
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Cameron held four solo exhibitions between 1908 and 1913 in Edinburgh, London and Paris, with a critic praising her "power, ease and fearlessness".
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Cameron has a small number of paintings in the British national collections. A portrait of Cameron at work in her studio, by
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in 1938. Cameron had three other failed attempts. She exhibited 56 works at the RSA between 1886 and 1919. Her painting,
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dogs at either side. The painting, along with one of Cameron's Spanish paintings, was published in the book
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Professional women painters in nineteenth-century Scotland : commitment, friendship, pleasure
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On 30 June 1905 Cameron married Alexis Millar, a horse dealer and jobmaster from Edinburgh, at
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in Edinburgh. The grave lies in the obscured southern terrace, towards the east end.
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in 1904. The winning portrait depicted her sister Flora with her two Russian
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of Edinburgh, winning prizes from the age of 17. She took classes at the
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London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597–1921
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In addition to being a talented artist, Cameron was also a capable
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Cameron first began her art education at the age of 16 through the
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and the inventor of the "Waverley" pen-nib. Her father also owned
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in Spain to study the work of 17th-century Spanish painter,
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newspaper. Her mother was a member of the Smalls of
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Index


Portobello
Midlothian
Turnhouse
Trustees Drawing Academy
Royal Scottish Academy


Portobello
Edinburgh
Duncan Cameron
Macniven and Cameron
The Oban Times
Dirnanean
Flora Macaulay
Trustees Drawing Academy
Edinburgh Veterinary College
Madrid
Diego Velázquez
Seville
bullfighting
Edinburgh Ladies Art Club
Society of Scottish Artists
Royal Scottish Academy
Pheobe Anna Traquair
Christina Paterson Ross
Josephine Haswell Miller
Paris Salon
Borzoi
Women Painters of the World

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