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William MounceyArtist: William Mouncey
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About the Artist Artist: William Mouncey Residence in Dumfries & Galloway: Education: Professional Bodies: Exhibited At: Mentors: Associates: Bibliography: William Mouncey, artist, Malcolm McLachlan Harper, The Gallovidian, Volume VI, No 23, 1904. Kirkcudbright: one hundred years of an artists' colony, Patrick Bourne, Atelier Books, Edinburgh, 2000. Tales of the kirkcudbright Artists,Haig Gordon, Kirkcudbright, 2006 The Paintings of William Mouncey of Kirkcudbright, Percy Bate, The Studio,Vol.45, No. 188,1908 Image of the artist, Gallovidian,1904 Notes: Followed his father in his business of house painter and decorator. Abandoned work as a house painter to paint full time 1886. A landscape painter he found inspiration from the rich and varied scenery around his home. Married one of E A Hornel's sisters. Latterly fell out with Hornel, who had earlier helped and advised him. W S McGeorge's portrait of Mouncey is at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (PG 1386). His Children and Goats in a Galloway Wood is illustrated in Bourne p54 and his Distant View of Kirkcudbright p56 (see bibliography). His Autumn Trees is in Perth Museum and Art Gallery. His By the Wayside is in Paisley Museum and Art Galleries. Exhibited at the first exhibition of the Kirkcudbrightshire Fine Art Association, 1886 (exhibition catalogue Stewartry Museum file) Exhibited at James Connell and sons, 31 Renfield St Glasgow. Kirkcudbright Harbour exhibited at Harbour Gallery, Kirkcudbright jubilee exhibition, 1982. A painting Near Tongland was sold in Bonhams' Scottish sale, 2007. Sale 15120 lot 1340 |