William Stewart MacGeorge

William Stewart MacGeorge 1861 – 1931

William Stewart MacGeorge was a native of Castle Douglas. He trained in Edinburgh and Antwerp. He painted Galloway scenes often including local children at play. Fishermen are to be found in many of his river views. He was very gifted at portraying dusk and evening light. MacGeorge travelled to Italy with fellow Kirkcudbright artist, Charles Oppenheimer in 1912. Macgei=orge was short of stature and always well turned out earning him the epithet “dapper”.

Influenced by EA Hornel he was on friendly terms until they fell out for a number of reasons which remain not entirely clear. MacGeorge and his wife Mabel Victoria, herself a gifted artist and the widow of Hugh Munro, another Scottish artist, then moved to Gifford in East Lothian where he died in 1931.