Edward Arthur Walton
Life and work
Edward Arthur Walton, who came from an exceptionally talented family, studied two winters at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, then continued his studies at the Glasgow School of Art, where he met James Guthrie. After completing her training, she applied for admission to the Glasgow Art Club, but were rebuffed. They left Glasgow and then went to Paris. There, they worked together on Joseph Crawhall intensively with the French realists, especially with the works of Jules Bastien- Lepage and suitable largely self-teaching painting techniques appropriate to.
On her return to Scotland, Walton, Guthrie and Crawhall dedicated in the summer of 1879 in Rosneath on the coast of Scotland of plein air painting. Walton, Crawhall, James Paterson, George Henry and John Lavery met regularly in the studio of William York MacGregor and formed the core of the Glasgow Boys. 1880 painted Walton in Surrey and again in 1881 together with Guthrie, Crawhall and Henry in Brig of Turk, where they did not do the landscape, but concentrated on the village life. 1882 settled the village of Walton Crowland in Lincolnshire, its inhabitants and the surrounding landscape inspired. The following year he visited Guthrie, who had a house based in Cockburnspath.
Walton made great progress in the open air painting and the use of oil paints and watercolors. In 1885 he created in Cockburnspath with A Daydream one of his most famous works. In 1886 he painted in Helensburgh a series of watercolors of the wealthy suburbs and their well-dressed residents. In the following years he turned from the French realists embossing and oriented towards the style of James McNeill Whistler. In 1889 he received a first official recognition and was elected an associate member of the Royal Scottish Academy.
From 1894 to 1904 he lived in London's Chelsea on Cheyne Walk, where he had Whistler and Lavery to neighbors. Walton now often painted in Suffolk, where he spent many summers in the rectory of Wenhaston. Here he painted rural scenes in oil and watercolor. 1904 Walton went back to Scotland and settled in Edinburgh. In 1905 he became a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1907 he traveled with Guthrie to Algiers and Spain and in 1913, he worked in Belgium. Later he discovered the landscape around Dumfries and Galloway and visited them regularly. In 1914 he was elected President of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colour. Walton died in 1920 in Edinburgh.