Early Autumn . RSA collections
Elected ARSA: 19 March 1919
James Riddel ARSA was born in Glasgow in 1857. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art and later in Edinburgh as well. He was mainly known as a painter of landscape in oil, and his art was influenced largely by the late Sir J. Lawton Wingate PRSA.
He became headmaster of the Art Section of the Herriot-Watt College and exhibited frequently both before and after election as an Associate of the Academy. He acted as treasurer for many years for the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colour and as Honourary Treasurer for the Scottish Artists' Benevolent Association until his death.
