Letters, photographs, printed material and press cuttings on the Scottish painter William Ewart Lockhart (1846-1900)

The folder contains a letter from W.E. Lockhart to his children from Florence, 20 December 1881, letter to Lockhart from Archduke Louis Salvator, Venice, a manuscript excerpt from 'Jogging round Majorca' by Gordon West about the Archduke, a letter from Lockhart to 'Gerard', a photograph of W.E. Lockhart and a photograph of John Blake MacDonald, R.S.A (Lockhart's great uncle), exhibition catalogue for the seventy-first exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy 1897 and Christie, Manson & Woods sale catalogue for a collection of works by Andrew Muir, works by Alfred Money Wigram and the remaining works of W.E. Lockhhart, 1900.

William Ewart Lockhart was born in Eaglesfield, Dumfrieshire. He first exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy at the age of fifteen, trained at the Academy schools, and became a full member in 1878. He was also a member of the Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours (founded in 1878), and of the Royal Watercolour Society. Lockhart is best known as a painter of genre subjects from Scottish history and literature, and for paintings of Spanish subjects. He moved to London in 1884 and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1873. Lockhart was commissioned by Queen Victoria to piant 'The Jubilee Celebration in Westminster Abbey, June 21, 1887' (1887-90). Lockhart's daughter, Adelaide Lockhart, married a Dutch stockbroker, Ferdinand Gerardus Goudsmit. She changed her name to Gerard by deed poll after the South African War. Her son was William Gordon Gerard (1898-1983). The only biography of Lockhart is Margery A. Wilkins's 'By Royal Command: William Ewart Lockhart' (Annan, 1998).

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Presented by Commander William Gordon Gerard (nee Goudsmit), grandson of William Ewart Lockhart, in 1971.