Duncan
Cameron
(1837-1916)
Duncan
Cameron was born in Perthshire and educated at Dundee and South
Kensington, Cameron exhibited mainly between 1880 and 1908. He
is best known as a fine landscape painter of the Scottish countryside
with a particular fondness for scenes of cornfields - his obituary
in the Scotsman noted ‘his distinctive note... best expressed
in the treatment of cornfields’. Basing his work around Stirling
and Edinburgh, between 1872-1900 he exhibited at the RA and at
the Society of British Artists. In 1876 he was awarded the Gold
Medal at Crystal Palace for showing the best landscape. He died
in Edinburgh aged 79.
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