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THE STRAND MAGAZINE.

WILLIAM EWART LOCKHART, R.S.A.

Born 1846.

Age 13.
From a Daguerreotype.
Age 31.
From a Photo. by T. Rogers, St. Andrews, N.B.
Age 21.
From a Photo. by Nesbitt & Lothian, Edinburgh.
Present Day.
From a Photo. by Crook, Edinburgh.


M R. WILLIAM EWART LOCKHART, R.S.A., was born in Dumfriesshire on February 14th, 1845. He exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy at the early age of fourteen, and a few years later in the Royal Academy. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1870. Eight years later, in 1878, Mr. Lockhart was made a full Academician. He is the representative of the Scottish Academy among the Trustees of the British Institution, and is a member of the Royal Water-Colour Society. In June, 1887, Mr. Lockhart was commissioned by Her Majesty the Queen to paint, for the Royal galleries at Windsor, a picture of the "Jubilee Celebration in Westminster Abbey," which large work engrossed his whole attention for almost three years. His principal works exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy are: "Priscilla," 1870; "Don Quixote," 1875; "Gil Blas," 1878; "Alnaschar," 1879; "Cardinal Beaton," 1881; "The Cid," 1882; "Swineherd," 1885; "Church Lottery," 1886; "Glaucus," 1887; and "The Jubilee Celebration in Westminster Abbey," 1887.

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