John MacWhirter

John MacWhirter ( born March 2, 1839 in Slateford, Edinburgh, † January 28, 1911 in London) was a Scottish landscape painter.

Life

MacWhirter studied at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh; In 1869 he went to London. Regular trips abroad took him to Italy, Sicily, Austria - Hungary, Norway, and Switzerland, Turkey and the United States; Customize it had done to him the Alps.

MacWhirter created mainly landscape views and studies of trees. He preferred to work in the wild. His style was influenced by the landscape painters of Romanticism, but less melancholy than that of his contemporaries Peter Graham and Joseph Farquharson. In 1900 he published a handbook with landscape watercolors in which he especially turned out the virtuosity of William Turner and John Everett Millais. MacWhirters most famous work is "June in the Austrian Tyrol " ( Tate Gallery).

Since 1879 he was an associate of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1893 and finally a full member.