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Andrew Somerville RSA ( (1808 -1834) was a short-lived Scottish artist. He is particularly noted for his illustration of Border ballads and several portraits. ==Life== He was born in 1808 the son of Andrew Somerville, a wireworker on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh, and then studied art at the Trustees Academy on Picardy Place, where he studied under William Simson.〔https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Somerville,_Andrew_(DNB00)〕 He exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1830 and was elected an Associate in 1831 and a Fellow in 1833. At the end of his life ‘’Andrew Somerville, portrait painter, Royal Academy’’ was listed as living at 4 James Square at the east end of Edinburgh’s First New Town.〔http://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/pageturner.cfm?id=83401731&mode=transcription〕 The property was demolished to build the St James Shopping Centre. He died in Edinburgh in January 1834.〔https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Somerville,_Andrew_(DNB00)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew Somerville」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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