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Duncan Cameron
(1837-1916)

St Colm’s Abbey, Inchcolme

Duncan Cameron was born in Perthshire and educated at Dundee and South Kensington, Cameron exhibited mainly between 1880 and 1908. He is best known as a fine landscape painter of the Scottish countryside with a particular fondness for scenes of cornfields - his obituary in the Scotsman noted ‘his distinctive note... best expressed in the treatment of cornfields’. Basing his work around Stirling and Edinburgh, between 1872-1900 he exhibited at the RA and at the Society of British Artists. In 1876 he was awarded the Gold Medal at Crystal Palace for showing the best landscape. He died in Edinburgh aged 79.

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