Robert Walker Macbeth

Robert Walker Macbeth ( born September 30, 1848 in Glasgow, † November 1, 1910 in Golder 's Green, London) was a Scottish painter.

Macbeth, son of the portrait painter Norman Macbeth, began his studies in Edinburgh and has retained the characteristics of the Scottish school in his later artistic career. Since 1870, he studied in London, shortly after became a member of the of Painters in Watercolours and presented in 1872 at the Royal Academy of Arts a painting from: Phyllis on freshly mown hay, which turned him universal attention, as well as his magnificent A Lincolnshire transition, a number of children at a tender age on the field at work. His Kartoffelherbstbörse bins and cutting evidence of a strong and vibrant color. At the most outstanding, however, the flooding in the marshes (1880 ). He was also a skilful etcher. In 1880 he founded, together with other artists, the Society of Painter - Etchers and Engravers, to establish the etching ( etching) and etching ( Engraving ) as a recognized art forms. In 1883 he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Arts.