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Robert Gemmell Hutchison
Scottish artist
Robert Gemmell HutchisonRSA RSW (1855–1936) was a Scottish landscape artist, specialising in coastal scenes.
He belongs to the school of British Impressionism.
Life
He was born in Edinburgh on 1 July 1855 the first son of George Hutchison, a brass-founder, and his wife Margaret Forman.[1] He was educated in Edinburgh.[2] After first training as a seal-engraver he was encouraged to pursue oil painting and trained under James Campbell Noble at the Trustees Academy on Picardy Place.
He set up his own studio at 1 India Buildings (at the top of Victoria Street) in 1878 and was instantly successful, exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1879 and at the Royal Academy in 1881.[3] He shifted quickly from empty seascapes, largely of the Fife coast, to genre paintings, usually of young girls sitting on the coast.[1]
He was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1903 and a