Dugald Sutherland MacColl was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1859 and educated at the Glasgow Academy, University College School, University College London and Lincoln College, Oxford and studied under Frederick Brown, Professor of Fine Art in London. He exhibited regularly with the New English Art Club and worked as an art critic successively on Spectator, Saturday Review, and Week-end Review. He was also editor of Architectural Review between 1901 and 1905 . He was appointed Keeper of the Tate Gallery, London, between 1906 and 1911 and Keeper of the Wallace Collection between 1911 and 1924 . An energetic administrator and controversialist, his publications include Nineteenth Century Art (1902) and a biography of P Wilson Steer. As well as writing poetry he founded the National Art Collections Fund. He died in 1948 .
Source: The Concise Dictionary of National Biography 1901-1970, ii (OUP: Oxford, 1982)
From the guide to the Papers of Dugald Sutherland MacColl, 1859-1948, painter, critic and art gallery director, 1809-1966, (Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department)
