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Robert Frier RSA (1855 –1912) was a Scottish artist. He specialised in landscapes.
Life edit
His father Robert Frier [Snr] (14 March 1818 - 16 September 1893) was a draper with a shop on the Lawnmarket in the Old Town and living at Ratcliffe Terrace in the South Side.[1] He exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1853 and in later censuses he was recorded as a landscape artist.
His mother was Margaret Palmer (24 August 1823 - 29 April 1888) from Kirkcudbright. Robert [Snr] and Margaret married on 7 November 1845 in Edinburgh. Most of their children were artists.
Robert Frier [Jnr.] was born in Edinburgh on 1855.[2] His older brother Henry (Harry) Frier (1849-1921) was also an artist.[3]
In 1880 he was living in a flat at 62 Queen Street, Edinburgh.[4]
By 1890 he is living in a much larger house at 108 George Street and is listed as a "landscape artist and teacher of drawing and painting".[5]
By 1895 he has left Edinburgh, possibly to live with his brother Henry in London.
Known works edit
- Stormy Highland Scene with Fishermen
- Scottish Landscape with Stick Gatherer
- Boat on a Canal with Trees
- Two Figures on a Bridge
- Scottish River Scene
- On the Lochside near Luss
- In the Leny Glen
References edit
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1855
- ^ "Robert Frier | Art Auction Results".
- ^ "Creech St Michael - About - Hall of Fame - Harry Frier".
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1880
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1890