DOI Heft:
No. 227 (February 1912)
DOI Artikel:Stodart-Walker, Archibald: A Scottish landscape painter: James Cadenhead, A.R.S.A., R.S.W.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21156#0032
James Cadenhead, A.R.S.A.
poraries in Scotland, who adopted art on the
professional side after experiments in other crafts
or callings. While still at the University, the
kindness and hospitality of one who did more
than any other man of his time to foster and
encourage an interest in the arts in Scotland, the
late Dr. John Forbes White, counted for much
in Mr. Cadenhead’s career. Dr. White not only
aroused in the young man a taste for the Old
Masters, particularly in the art of Rembrandt
and Velasquez, but also drew him under the-
influence of those men whose works he was one of
he first—perhaps the first—to purchase in this
country, the works of the Barbizon and the Modern
Dutch Schools, as represented chiefly by Corot
and Millet on the one hand and Matthew and James
Maris and Bosboom on the other.
After early training in his native city, in which
from the first he showed a marked aptitude for
etching, black-and-white drawing, and portraiture,
Cadenhead proceeded to the Royal Scottish
Academy Schools in Edinburgh. At that time
the Life School there was conducted in the old
chaotic way, when half a dozen mutually contra-
dictory or incoherent “ visitors ” came in rotation
to “ influence ” the students. This system was of
little use to such a man as Cadenhead was
proving himself to be, and it was on this account
that he easily consented to the advice of his friends,
the late Alexander Mann and Mr. T. Millie
Dow, that he should proceed to Paris. Accord-
ingly in 1882 he found his way to Carolus Duran’s
atelier, being notable as the first Royal Scottish
Academy student to study in Paris. Amongst his
fellow-workers in the city at the time, besides Mr.
Mann and Mr. Millie Dow, were Mr. Edward
Stott, Mr. John Lavery, Mr. Alexander Roche,
Mr. James Paterson, Mr. von Glehn, Mr. Tuke,
and others. But William Stott of Oldham and
Mr. John Sargent were the arrives who chiefly
fixed the young painter’s attention. Amongst the
many artistic experiences which Mr. Cadenhead
“a moorland
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FROM AN OIL PAINTING BY JAMES CADENHEAD, A. R. S. A.
poraries in Scotland, who adopted art on the
professional side after experiments in other crafts
or callings. While still at the University, the
kindness and hospitality of one who did more
than any other man of his time to foster and
encourage an interest in the arts in Scotland, the
late Dr. John Forbes White, counted for much
in Mr. Cadenhead’s career. Dr. White not only
aroused in the young man a taste for the Old
Masters, particularly in the art of Rembrandt
and Velasquez, but also drew him under the-
influence of those men whose works he was one of
he first—perhaps the first—to purchase in this
country, the works of the Barbizon and the Modern
Dutch Schools, as represented chiefly by Corot
and Millet on the one hand and Matthew and James
Maris and Bosboom on the other.
After early training in his native city, in which
from the first he showed a marked aptitude for
etching, black-and-white drawing, and portraiture,
Cadenhead proceeded to the Royal Scottish
Academy Schools in Edinburgh. At that time
the Life School there was conducted in the old
chaotic way, when half a dozen mutually contra-
dictory or incoherent “ visitors ” came in rotation
to “ influence ” the students. This system was of
little use to such a man as Cadenhead was
proving himself to be, and it was on this account
that he easily consented to the advice of his friends,
the late Alexander Mann and Mr. T. Millie
Dow, that he should proceed to Paris. Accord-
ingly in 1882 he found his way to Carolus Duran’s
atelier, being notable as the first Royal Scottish
Academy student to study in Paris. Amongst his
fellow-workers in the city at the time, besides Mr.
Mann and Mr. Millie Dow, were Mr. Edward
Stott, Mr. John Lavery, Mr. Alexander Roche,
Mr. James Paterson, Mr. von Glehn, Mr. Tuke,
and others. But William Stott of Oldham and
Mr. John Sargent were the arrives who chiefly
fixed the young painter’s attention. Amongst the
many artistic experiences which Mr. Cadenhead
“a moorland
12
FROM AN OIL PAINTING BY JAMES CADENHEAD, A. R. S. A.