George
Ogilvey Reid
1851-1928
George
Ogilvey Reid was born in Leith, Edinburgh. He was a painter in
oil and watercolour of historical genre and landscape and also
portraits. He spent 10 years working as an engraver, and it was
only in 1884 that he began to receive recognition for his art.
In 1891, Queen Victoria commissioned him to paint the christening
at Balmoral of the son of the Prince and Princess of Battenburg,
a work which attracted wide interest at the time, and which was
illustrated widely. He often painted around Killin, Perthshire.
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