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Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975). From 1910 to 1924 he was a member of the Benedictine brotherhood on Caldey Island, and one of the 20 monks who followed Abbot Aelred Carlyle over to Rome in 1913. Reverting to lay-life at the age of 35 he soon began to make a name for himself as an author-artist. The first of his 36 published books appeared in 1927. He was the co-founder of the Apostleship of the Sea in 1921, and later became a founder member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. In 1974 he was accepted into the community of Nunraw Abbey, East Lothian and died in St. Raphael's Hospital in Edinburgh in July 1975. He is buried at Nunraw.
Reference: 31102c
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-19...
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975). From 1910 to 1924 he was a member of the Benedictine brotherhood on Caldey Island, and one of the 20 monks who followed Abbot Aelred Carlyle over to Rome in 1913. Reverting to lay-life at the age of 35 he soon began to make a name for himself as an author-artist. The first of his 36 published books appeared in 1927. He was the co-founder of the Apostleship of the Sea in 1921, and later became a founder member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. In 1974 he was accepted into the community of Nunraw Abbey, East Lothian and died in St. Raphael's Hospital in Edinburgh in July 1975. He is buried at Nunraw.
Reference: 31102b
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-19...
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975). From 1910 to 1924 he was a member of the Benedictine brotherhood on Caldey Island, and one of the 20 monks who followed Abbot Aelred Carlyle over to Rome in 1913. Reverting to lay-life at the age of 35 he soon began to make a name for himself as an author-artist. The first of his 36 published books appeared in 1927. He was the co-founder of the Apostleship of the Sea in 1921, and later became a founder member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. In 1974 he was accepted into the community of Nunraw Abbey, East Lothian and died in St. Raphael's Hospital in Edinburgh in July 1975. He is buried at Nunraw.
Reference: 31102a
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-19...
Macrae & Dick Taxi Booking Office in Station Square, the site now occupied by Mail Boxes Etc., with Ben Wyvis Kilts upstairs. The train station building is on the right. On the left are the offices of McGruther & Marshall Ltd, coal and cement merchants and shipping agents. *
Reference: 3892
Macrae & Dick Taxi Booking...
Major Angus Falconer Douglas-Hamilton (1863-1915). The Cameron Highlanders, The Depot. One of four VC winners copied for a composite picture in January 1929. Commissioned into the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in 1884, he served in the Sudan, Gibraltar, Malta, South Africa, North China, and India, attaining the rank of major by 1901. He retired in 1912, whilst remaining on the reserve list. In 1914 he was recalled and promoted to a temporary Lieutenant-Colonelcy in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Reserve of Officers, commanding the 6th Battalion. He was awarded the VC for the following action: On 25th September 1915 during operations on Hill 70 at the Battle of Loos, Douglas-Hamilton, when the battalions on his right and left had retired, rallied his own battalion again and again and led his men forward four times. The last time he led all that remained, about 50 men, in a most gallant manner, and was killed at their head. It was due to his bravery, and splendid leadership that the line at this point was able to check the enemy's advance. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Highlanders' Museum in Fort George. He is also depicted in the oil painting by Joseph Gray of the 6th Battalion The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders at the Battle of Loos, 1915, which hangs in the museum.
Reference: 27563a
Major Angus Falconer Douglas-H...
Hat band denotes HMS Armadale Castle. The SS Armadale Castle was a passenger steamship built in 1903 at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering, Govan, Scotland. She was requisitioned from the Union Castle Line as an armed merchant cruiser in the Royal Navy in August 1914 and was used as a supply, transport and patrol vessel. She was returned to commercial service in 1919 and laid up at Netley in 1935, reprieved for one voyage, then scrapped in 1936 at Blyth. #
Reference: H-0204a
Hat band denotes HMS Armadale ...
'Rotterdam Harbour' by Jan Visser in 1946 (730mm x 970mm). Born in Rotterdam on 29th August 1897, Visser was a painter, water colourist and designer of stained glass, with subjects including harbours, portraits, interiors, animals and (very important to him), religion. Visser was taught, and was a teacher at, the Academy of Art in Rotterdam. He was also a member of the Pulchri Studio, a famous artist society in The Hague. There is a Visser work in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, and samples can be seen online at: www.marcelgieling.nl [search: jan visser] and www.venduehuis.com/online_catalogus/veiling/14/rubriek/60/pagina/17#lightbox[23657]/0/ Visser died in Rotterdam on 16th September 1968. This brief biographical data was provided by Hans Wijgergangs of the RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History), the world's leading information centre and central source for the study of Dutch art. The original painting of Rotterdam Harbour is held in a private collection in Inverness. *
Reference: 47668
'Rotterdam Harbour' by...
Landscape study of Beauly Firth from Kessock Ferry, with wrecked boat's bow on beach and sunlight shining through clouds.*
Reference: H-0008
Landscape study of Beauly Firt...
Murray - copies made in August 1955, to be superimposed together. (See 672b). Naval cap band denotes HMS Pembroke. The last ship to bear that name before the current Pembroke, served as Flagship to the Commander in Chief Fleet and was a 101-gun screw propelled first rate. Launched in 1859 as HMS Duncan she was renamed HMS Pembroke on her transferral to harbour service in 1890, renamed HMS Tenedos II in 1905 and sold in 1910. HMS Pembroke, the Royal Naval Barracks at Chatham, were opened in 1903.
Reference: 672a
Murray - copies made in August...