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THE STRAND MAGAZINE.
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SIR GEORGE REID, P.R.S.A.

Born 1842.

Age 17.
From a Photo. by A. Adams, Aberdeen.
Age 24.
From a Photo. by John Lamb, Aberdeen.
Age 36.
From a Photo. by John Lamb, Aberdeen.
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From a Photo. by A. Inglis, Edinburgh.


S IR GEORGE REID, P.R.S.A., was born in Aberdeen, N.B., in the year 1842, and when nineteen years of age commenced his artistic studies at the "Trustees' Academy," in the City of Edinburgh, and shortly afterwards in Utrecht, under Mollinger. In 1870 he quitted the latter place for Paris, where he continued his studies; and for several months in 1871 completed his student life with Israels, at The Hague. He has proved himself a artist, and proficient in all departments—both figure and landscape. Latterly he has applied himself to portrait painting, in which he finds few competitors. He has done much in the way of book illustrating. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1870, and a full member seven years afterwards, receiving on the death of Sir W. Fettes Douglas the unanimous call of his brethren to occupy the chair as President.

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