Records of James Paterson Museum Archive, museum collection, Moniaive, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland 1818-2002

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Records of James Paterson Museum Archive, museum collection, Moniaive, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland 1818-2002

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Paterson, James 1854-1932

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James Paterson Museum Archive (museum collection : 1818-2002 : Moniaive, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland)

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James Paterson was born into a prosperous Glasgow textile family in an era when being an artist was frowned on. Whilst working, he went to study in the early hours of the morning at the Glasgow School of Art, where he was tutored by A D Robertson, one of Glasgow's finest watercolour teachers. James spent all his spare time sketching and in 1876 at the age of 22 years, he set off to Paris with an allowance from his father, to study in the Ateliers of Jacquesson de la Chevreuse and Je...