SELLAR - Charles Andrew Sellar (1855-1926)
Last updated | 28/09/2010
Portraitist and landscapist in oils and watercolours
born Perth 9 November 1855
died Perth 15 April 1926
SOME THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT CHARLES ANDREW SELLAR
Charles was the son of James Annand Sellar (an Episcopalian
Clergyman) and his wife Margaret Ann Tyrell
Charles graduated with a Master of Arts degree from Edinburgh
University
Charles was originally destined to follow a legal career
Charles had his studio at 58 Tay Street Perth from about 1901,
sharing it with Thomas Wyman Brown from 1911 to 1926
Charles' studio was taken over in 1930 by
David Prophet Ramsay
Charles was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of
Painters in Watercolour (RSW)
Charles worked in both oil and watercolour and painted portraits
and landscapes
Charles exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy and Royal Scottish
Society of Painters in Watercolour annual exhibitions as well as
with the Perthshire Art Association on whose Committee he also
served
Charles won three bronze medals at the 1904 Perth Arts and Crafts
Exhibition to which he only submitted four works
CHECKLIST OF WORKS BY CHARLES ANDREW SELLAR IN PERTH MUSEUM AND
ART GALLERY
(it is not possible to show all of the collection at any one
time. To make an appointment to view any material not on display
please
contact the Art Section)
PAINTINGS
Portrait of the Artist's Mother, oil on canvas, 1887
On the Braan Near Inver, oil on board, not dated
Flower Study, oil on board, not dated
The Fruitmarket, oil on canvas, not dated
Golf Caddie on the North Inch Perth, oil on board, not dated
Near Amulree, oil on board, not dated
A Reminiscence, oil on canvas, about 1897
Portrait of Lord Provost Charles Scott of Perth, oil on canvas,
1918
Portrait of Lord Provost Archibald Ure Wotherspoon of Perth, oil on
canvas, 1922-3
Portrait of The Right Honourable John Campbell Marquis of
Breadalbane, copy portrait after J M Barclay, oil on canvas,
about 1895
Portrait of Provost Peter Campbell of Aberfeldy, oil on canvas,
1914
Posthumous Portrait of Professor Archibald Sandeman of Perth,
oil on canvas, May 1922
Huntingtower Castle by Perth, oil on canvas, about 1900
Portrait of Lord Provost Andrew Graham of Perth, oil on canvas,
1900
