Alexander William Wellwood Rattray ARSA 1849-17/04/1902

Alexander William Wellwood Rattray ARSA was born in St Andrews in 1849. He received his education at the Glasgow Academy and the University and became a student at the Glasgow School of Art.

He was devoted to landscape painting and exhibited in 1876 for the first time in the Royal Scottish Academy two works, “Arran from Kilcrggan” and “Sketch in Bute”.  Some of his most important works include; “Neath the Green Shade,” 1879, “O’er the Muir among the Heather,” 1880 and “Loch Ard,” 1881.