Elected ARSA: 30 March 1892
Archibald David Reid ARSA was born in 1844 in Aberdeen. After some preliminary study in Aberdeen, he became a pupil at the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh and shortly afterwards attended the Academy's Life Class. He completed his studies in a Parisian studio after a sizeable interval.
Reid was primarily a landscape painter and began exhibiting in 1870. He was a liberal contributor to the Academy's Exhibition as well as occasionally exhibiting at the Royal Academy in London. Some of his notable works include, "A Lone Shore", "A Court in the Alhambra", and "The Scotch House, Campvere, Holland".
