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from 1887 to 1888. During his time in the city he was working as a stained-glass painter, possibly for a firm of decorators, such as J & W Guthrie. His series of lithographs, 'Picturesque Glasgow' was published in 'The Bailie' (1893–95). After sending a selection of his drawings to
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Boreham, Louise “From Cumnock to Compton”, in ‘Northern Ceramic Society Journal’, Volume 29, 2013, pp. 79–96, plus ‘From Cumnock to Compton – Update’ in ‘Northern Ceramic Society Newsletter’ no 170, June 2013,
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Boreham, Louise "The Thistle Chapel : a reassessment of the windows and carving" in "Architectural Heritage X, The Journal of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland", 1999, pp. 54 – 65.
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from 1895 to 1900. He helped her to run the classes attended by the local villagers, who modelled the decorative terra cotta tiles for the chapel. Then he went on in 1900 to do the same job at the
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Boreham, Louise “New Bosses for the Roof of Glasgow Cathedral Choir” in Architectural Heritage XV, The Journal of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland", 2004, pp. 117–128.
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Louis Deuchars died on 19 September 1927 and was buried at Saughton Cemetery in south-west Edinburgh. His funeral was attended by all the major figures in the local art world.
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Boreham, Louise "Louis Reid Deuchars – Collaboration with Sir Robert Lorimer", in "Church Monuments, Journal of the Church Monuments Society" Volume XII 1977, pp. 87–93.
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Boreham, Louise “Wood Carving in Dunblane Cathedral Choir” in “Journal of the Society of Friends of Dunblane Cathedral”, Vol. XIX, 2002, Part 1, pp. 4 – 10.
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Boreham, Louise "Louis Reid Deuchars (1870–1927) & the Relationship between Sculptors & Architects", PhD Thesis, Edinburgh College of Art, December 1998.
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Boreham, Louise "Sculptors v. Architects" in "Architectural Heritage IX, The Journal of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland", 1998, pp. 84–98.
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Boreham, Louise “Notable Contributors to the Chapel Decoration” in Mary Watts, “The Word in the Pattern”, facsimile, Surrey 2012, pp. 97–103.
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Boreham, Louise "Louis Reid Deuchars and the Aldourie Pottery" in "Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History" Volume 2 1997, pp. 1 – 9.
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Boreham, Louise “Louis Reid Deuchars” in “The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland – The Journal and Annual Report 1988 No 15, pp. 14–20.
272:, 'England's Michelangelo', Deuchars secured work as an assistant to Watts at Compton, Surrey, England, where he worked on Watts' sculptures 89: 298:, Inverness-shire. During his association with the Wattses, he learned how to submit works to major art exhibitions & sold several. 449:
Boreham, Louise “Sculptors and Architects – two Scottish case studies”, in “Sculpture Journal”, Volume 21.2, 2012, pp. 157–167.
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Boreham, Louise “Louis Reid Deuchars and the Altar at Mount Stuart” in “Sculpture Journal VII”, PMSA London, 2002, pp. 83 – 94.
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Boreham, Louise “Compton Chapel" in "The Victorian, the Magazine of the Victorian Society", No. 3, March 2000, pp. 10 – 13.
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Boreham, Louise "Aldourie Pottery, Dores, Inverness-shire" in "Scottish Pottery Historical Review No.9", 1984/5, pp. 37–39.
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Blair, Robin; Boreham, Louise; Burnett, Charles; Cumming, Elizabeth; Roads, Elizabeth "The Thistle Chapel", Edinburgh, 2009.
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Boreham, Louise “A Fitting Tribute – The Story of the Glenelg War Memorial”, in “Wester Ross Life”, Issue 12, 1998, p14.
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Boreham, Louise “In Grandfather’s Footsteps” in “Motorcaravan and Motorhome Monthly”, March 1988, pp. 34 & 36.
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Boreham, Louise "The Early Days of The Compton Pottery" in "Watts Magazine", Issue 9 Summer 2010, pp. 14–18.
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Boreham, Louise “Louis Reid Deuchars at Limnerslease” in “Watts Magazine”, Issue 5 Winter 2009, pp. 21,2.
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Boreham, Louise “G. F. Watts’s della Robbia tondo”, in ‘Sculpture Journal’ Volume 22.1 , pp. 133–139.
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Boreham, Louise “Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee”, in “Watts Magazine”, Issue 14 Spring 2012, p. 23.
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Boreham, Louise "Aldourie: Testament of hope” in “The Scotsman – Weekend”, 11 July 1987.
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in St John's Wood, London. Then he moved to be assistant to another sculptor,
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had just embarked on his commission for the new Chapel of the Knights of the
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Following that he was assistant to the sculptor Sir William
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