Elected ARSA: 11 November 1885
David George Steell was born in Edinburgh in 1856. He studied at the Mound School and exhibited for the first time at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1873 with three works, “In Clover,” “A Pet Rabbit,” and “Startled”.
Much of his work focussed on carefully observed studies of creatures of the field, forest and mountains, particularly birds and deer in their natural surroundings.
