Antique 19th Century Scottish etching by William Strang Signed, pencil signed, "Entrance to the Castle", 20 1/4 x 13 1/2" image size, 29 x 22" framed
Strang was born at Dumbarton, the son of Peter Strang, a builder, and was educated at the Dumbarton Academy. For fifteen months after leaving school he worked in the counting-house of a firm of shipbuilders, then in 1875, when he was sixteen, went to London.[1] There, he was a pupil of Edward Poynter for three months,[2] before studying drawing and etching under Alphonse Legros at the Slade School of Fine Art for six years.[1] Strang had great success as an etcher and became assistant master in the etching class. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, and his work was part of its first exhibition in 1881. Some of his early plates were published in The Portfolio and other art magazines.

29 x 22 x 1 in

10 lb