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Signed W. Eadie. Painting measures 12"X 9" and is dated 1900. On the reverse is stamped "Robert Miller, Artist's Colourman. 186 Trongate, Glasgow." Company has been in business since 1834. It was at that location from 1864-1970.
William Eadie was a Scottish painter whose life dates are 1846/47-1926. He studied at the Paisley School of Arts,
He had twelve exhibitions at the Royal Academy between 1871 and 1894, as well exhibiting at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1868. He also exhibited at the Dowdeswell Galleries (1890), the Grosvenor Gallery (two views of St. Ives in 1890), the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, the Walter Art Gallery, Liverpool and Nottingham Castle (1894).
He is listed as living in St John's Wood from 1871 until 1889, when he moved to St. Ives (in Cornwall). He was one of the founding members of the St Ives art colony in 1885 and the St Ives Arts Club. The colony, inspired by Émile Vernier's (1829-1887) sojourn there in 1884, drew many members from the British art colony in Concarneau (Brittany). He and his wife (Annie) lived in St Ives (in Halsetown) for several decades. While there Eadie produced genre scenes and won commissions for many local portraits. The panels of Twelve Apostles in St John's in the Fields Church, St Ives, were painted by him.
He has works in the Paisley Museum and Art Galleries and the Penlee House Gallery & Museum (Penzance, Cornwall).
He died in London and is buried at Highgate.
He is listed in Davenports, Artprice, Askart, Artfact, Artnet, Findartinfo.
