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Violet Jacob (1 September 1863 – 9 September 1946) was a Scottish writer known especially for her historical novel Flemington and for her poetry, mainly in Scots.She was described by a fellow Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid as "the most considerable of contemporary vernacular poets".
When they married they moved to the property and Augusta set about making several alterations, modernizing the property. The writer and poet Violet Jacob (1863–1946), author of Flemington and Tales of Angus, was a member of the Kennedy-Erskine family and was born in the house. The last Laird of Dun was Millicent Lovett.
Banks was a regular exhibitor with the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, the Scottish Society of Women Artists and the Society of Scottish Artists. [2] [4] [3] Examples of works by Banks are held in the national art collection of Scotland. [5]
Mary Nimmo Moran (1822–1899), U.S.-based landscape artist, engraver; Anne Nasmyth (1798–1874), Scottish landscape artist; Barbara Nasmyth (1790–1870), Scottish landscape artist; Charlotte Nasmyth (1804–1884), Scottish landscape artist; Jane Nasmyth (1788–1867), Scottish landscape artist; Jessie Newbery (1864–1948), embroiderer ...
As writers such as George Douglas Brown railed against the "Kailyard school" that had come to dominate Scottish letters, producing satiric, realist accounts of Scottish rural life in novels like The House with the Green Shutters (1901), Scots language poets such as Violet Jacob and Marion Angus undertook a quiet revival of regionally inflected ...
In the mid-1990s the Scottish Arts Council took the decision to distribute its collection of approximately 2,000 works by contemporary Scottish artists to museums and galleries throughout Scotland. Institutions were given the opportunity to view the collection and submit proposals for acquisition, the City Art Centre applied and in 1998 ...
It includes Scottish painters that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "20th-century Scottish women painters" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total.
Scottish art is the body of visual art made in what is now Scotland, or about Scottish subjects, since prehistoric times. It forms a distinctive tradition within European art, but the political union with England has led its partial subsumation in British art .