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David Gauld

{{Short description|Scottish artist (1865–1936)}}

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{{Infobox artist

| name = David Gauld

| image = Stipple-point of David Gauld c.1895.jpg

| caption = Stipple-point of David Gauld c.1895

| birth_date = {{birth date|1865|11|7|df=y}}

| birth_place = Glasgow

| death_date = {{death date and age|1936|6|18|1865|11|7|df=y}}

| death_place = East Kilbride

| nationality = British

| field = Painting

| training = Glasgow School of Art

}}

File:Music, stained glass by David Gauld 1891 (detail).jpg

David Gauld (7 November 1865 – 18 June 1936) was an important Scottish artist who worked in both oils and stained glass and was regarded as being one of the innovators within the Glasgow Boys group. Some of his works, such as St Agnes and Music are seen as precursors of the Art Nouveau movement.{{cite web |author=Victoria Fine Art|url=http://www.victoria-fine-art.com/Artists-A-G/Gauld-David|title=David Gauld Biography of Artist |date=|accessdate=13 June 2016|work=Victoria Fine Art}} His works were seen as having both a Japanese and Pre-Raphaelite influence upon them.

Biography

File:St Agnes by David Gauld 1889, NGS.JPG

File:Portrait head by David Gauld, 1893.jpg

Gauld was born in Glasgow and served an apprenticeship as a lithographer and stained glass designer under Stephen Adam{{Cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/art/stainedglass/adam/gailbraith.html|title = Always happy in his designs: The legacy of Stephen Adam}} and then attended Glasgow School of Art from 1882 to 1885.{{cite book|author=John House & MaryAnne Stevens (Editors)|publisher=The Royal Academy of Arts/Weidenfeld and Nicolson|year=1979|title=Post-Impressionism|isbn=0-297-77713-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/postimpressionis0000unse_w8t3}} He came to public notice in the 1880s when he supplied a series of Japanese-influenced pen and ink drawings for the Glasgow Weekly Citizen.{{cite web |author=Pollockshields Heritage|url=http://www.pollokshieldsheritage.org/Trail%203/Gauld.html|title=David Gauld (1865–1936) |date=|accessdate=13 June 2016|work=Pollockshields Heritage}}

Gauld shared the Castlemains Studio in Kirkcudbright with William Stewart MacGeorge and then in later life shared a studio with Harrington Mann at 31 St Vincent Street in Glasgow from 1891 to 1894. During this time he designed stained glass windows for Guthrie and Wells. In 1895 Gauld appears to have split from Mann, and their friendship ended. Gauld then took new premises at 138 West George Street in Glasgow.Glasgow stained glass, by Michael Donnelly He also lived at various locations in Kirkcudbright, Glasgow and North Berwick. In 1889 he returned to the Glasgow School of Art and was promoted by Alexander Reid.Alexander Reid in Context, Frances Fowle,_vol1 He later also studied in Paris for a period that year. Like other artists from Glasgow, Gauld spent time at the artists colony at Grez-sur-Loing in France.{{cite book|author=Frances Spalding|author-link=Frances Spalding|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors |isbn=1-85149-106-6}}

He was elected an Associate member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1918 and became a full member of the Academy in 1924.artistsfootsteps.co.uk He was sculpted by William Shirreffs in 1896.{{cite web|url=http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib6_1232383806|title=William Shirreffs – Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951|publisher=|accessdate=25 January 2017}}

Gauld died on 18 June 1936 at Lymekilns Nursing Home in East Kilbride. He is buried in East Kilbride Cemetery.

Works

Gauld has works in most Scottish galleries, being particularly well represented in the Hunterian Art Gallery in Glasgow. His typical subjects included cows, calves and mills, but he did occasionally do portraiture. Works of note are:bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/david-gauld/paintings

Stained Glass

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External links

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Category:1865 births

Category:1936 deaths

Category:Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art

Category:Artists from Glasgow

Category:Scottish stained glass artists and manufacturers

Category:19th-century Scottish male artists

Category:20th-century Scottish male artists