ROBERT WEIR ALLAN RSA RWS RSW (1852-1942) Biography
GLASGOW SCHOOL (c.1878-c.1920)

Description / Expertise

Robert Weir Allan was born in Glasgow and worked first in the surrounding area, exhibiting at the Glasgow Institute as early as 1873. He was predominantly a painter of landscapes and seascapes, taking for his subject the fishing villages and cliffs of the North East Coast of Scotland. He was known especially for working in watercolour and was a member of both the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colour (1880) and the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colour (1896). He travelled to Paris in the 1870's, where he studied with Julians Paris. He sent many plein air landscapes from Paris to exhibitions in England. In 1881 he settled in London. From 1891-92 he toured India, and in 1907 he visited Japan. He also made frequent journeys to the continent.