Daniel Macnee

Sir Daniel Macnee ( born June 4, 1806 Fintry, Stirlingshire, † January 17, 1882 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish portrait painter.

At the age of 13 years, Daniel Macnee began training at the prestigious landscape painter John Knox, along with Horatio McCulloch and William Leighton Leitch. He then worked for a year as a lithographer and then had a job in which he decorated the lid wooden snuff boxes with ornaments. Finally, he studied at the Trustees ' Academy Edinburgh and Coloured alongside stitches for the engraver William Home Lizars. 1832 Macnee established as an artist in Glasgow and became a sought-after portraitist there.

1829 Macnee became a member of the newly established Royal Scottish Academy. In 1876 he succeeded the late President of the Academy, Sir George Harvey, and in 1877 was honored with the title of nobility. From that time until his death lived Macnee in Edinburgh. His social nature and his inimitable way, to give Scottish amusing anecdotes, made ​​him extremely popular there.