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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/David_Gauld > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/David_Gauld.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gauld > Source revision: 1342871873 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Scottish artist (1865–1936)}} {{about|the artist|the mathematician|David Gauld (mathematician)}} {{Use British English|date=June 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Infobox artist | name = David Gauld | image = Stipple-point of David Gauld c.1895.jpg | caption = Stipple-point of David Gauld c.1895 | birth_date = {{birth date|1865|11|7|df=y}} | birth_place = [Glasgow](/source/Glasgow) | death_date = {{death date and age|1936|6|18|1865|11|7|df=y}} | death_place = [East Kilbride](/source/East_Kilbride) | field = Painting | training = [Glasgow School of Art](/source/Glasgow_School_of_Art) }} thumb|Music, stained glass by David Gauld 1891 (detail) '''David Gauld''' (7 November 1865 – 18 June 1936) was an important Scottish artist who worked in both oils and stained glass and was regarded as being one of the innovators within the [Glasgow Boys](/source/Glasgow_Boys) group. Some of his works, such as ''St Agnes'' and ''Music'' are seen as precursors of the [Art Nouveau](/source/Art_Nouveau) movement.{{cite web|author=Victoria Fine Art|url=http://www.victoria-fine-art.com/Artists-A-G/Gauld-David|title=David Gauld Biography of Artist|date=|accessdate=13 June 2016|work=Victoria Fine Art|archive-date=27 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210727130051/https://www.victoria-fine-art.com/Artists-A-G/Gauld-David|url-status=dead}} His works were seen as having both a Japanese and [Pre-Raphaelite](/source/Pre-Raphaelite) influence upon them. ==Biography== thumb|''St Agnes'' by David Gauld 1889, National Gallery of Scotland thumb|''Portrait head'' by David Gauld, 1893 Gauld was born in [Glasgow](/source/Glasgow) and served an apprenticeship as a lithographer and stained glass designer under [Stephen Adam](/source/Stephen_Adam_(stained_glass_designer)){{Cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/art/stainedglass/adam/gailbraith.html|title = Always happy in his designs: The legacy of Stephen Adam}} and then attended [Glasgow School of Art](/source/Glasgow_School_of_Art) from 1882 to 1885.{{cite book|editor1=John House|editor2=MaryAnne Stevens|publisher=The Royal Academy of Arts/Weidenfeld and Nicolson|year=1979|title=Post-Impressionism|isbn=0-297-77713-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/postimpressionis0000unse_w8t3}} He came to public notice in the 1880s when he supplied a series of Japanese-influenced pen and ink drawings for the ''Glasgow Weekly Citizen''.{{cite web |url=http://www.pollokshieldsheritage.org/Trail%203/Gauld.html |title=David Gauld (1865–1936) |date= |accessdate=13 June 2016 |work=Pollokshields Heritage |url-status=dead }} Gauld shared the Castlemains Studio in [Kirkcudbright](/source/Kirkcudbright) with [William Stewart MacGeorge](/source/William_Stewart_MacGeorge) and then in later life shared a studio with [Harrington Mann](/source/Harrington_Mann) at 31 St Vincent Street in Glasgow from 1891 to 1894. During this time he designed stained glass windows for Guthrie and Wells. In 1895 Gauld appears to have split from Mann, and their friendship ended. Gauld then took new premises at 138 West George Street in Glasgow.Glasgow stained glass, by Michael Donnelly He also lived at various locations in [Kirkcudbright](/source/Kirkcudbright), Glasgow and [North Berwick](/source/North_Berwick). In 1889 he returned to the Glasgow School of Art and was promoted by [Alexander Reid](/source/Alexander_Reid_(art_dealer)).Alexander Reid in Context, Frances Fowle,_vol1 He later also studied in Paris for a period that year. Like other artists from Glasgow, Gauld spent time at the artists colony at [Grez-sur-Loing](/source/Grez-sur-Loing) in France.{{cite book|author=Frances Spalding|author-link=Frances Spalding|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors |isbn=1-85149-106-6}} He was elected an Associate member of the [Royal Scottish Academy](/source/Royal_Scottish_Academy) in 1918 and became a full member of the Academy in 1924. In 1935 he was appointed as director of Design Studies at Glasgow School of Art.{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Grove Art |first=Roger |last=Billcliffe |title=Gauld, David |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T031032 |url-access=subscription |access-date=22 August 2025 |language=en |date=2003 |publisher=Oxford}} He was sculpted by [William Shirreffs](/source/William_Shirreffs) in 1896.{{cite web|url=http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib6_1232383806|title=William Shirreffs – Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951|publisher=|accessdate=25 January 2017}} Gauld died on 18 June 1936 at Lymekilns Nursing Home in [East Kilbride](/source/East_Kilbride). He is buried in East Kilbride Cemetery. ==Works== Gauld has works in most Scottish galleries, being particularly well represented in the [Hunterian Art Gallery](/source/Hunterian_Art_Gallery) in Glasgow. His typical subjects included cows, calves and mills, but he did occasionally do portraiture. Works of note are:bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/david-gauld/paintings * Raploch, Stirling, showing [Stirling Castle](/source/Stirling_Castle), Glasgow Museums * East Linton Mill, Glasgow Museums * Robert Stewart, [Lord Provost](/source/Lord_Provost) of Glasgow 1851-4, Glasgow Museums * Mary in Brown, Hunterian Art Gallery * The Ramparts of Montreuil-sur-Mer in Snow, Hunterian Art Gallery * Chateau in [Bruges](/source/Bruges), Hunterian Art Gallery * Music, Hunterian Art Gallery * St Agnes, [National Gallery of Scotland](/source/National_Gallery_of_Scotland) * [Kirkcudbright Castle](/source/Kirkcudbright_Castle), East Ayrshire Council * [Kirkcudbright](/source/Kirkcudbright), Dumfries and Galloway Council ==Stained Glass== *The Druids, [Rosehaugh House](/source/Rosehaugh_House). 1896 *[Bellahouston](/source/Bellahouston) Parish Church *[Skelmorlie](/source/Skelmorlie) Parish Church, 1895 *"Praise" window, Upper Largo, 1896 *"Music" Kelvingrove Art Gallery ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{commonscat-inline}} * {{Art UK bio}} {{British and Irish stained glass}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gauld, David}} Category:1865 births Category:1936 deaths Category:Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art Category:Artists from Glasgow Category:Scottish stained glass artists and manufacturers Category:19th-century Scottish male artists Category:20th-century Scottish male artists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [David Gauld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gauld) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gauld?action=history)). 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