William Strang RA RE (1859-1921)
Strang was born at Dumbarton and in 1875, aged 16, he moved to London to study under Alphonse Legros at the Slade School.
A prolific artist, Strang was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1891 (where he exhibited over 160 works during the course of his career) and a Royal Academician in 1921. He produced over 750 etchings, drypoints and other prints as well as oils and watercolours.
Discussing his prints, Gray (1937, p.176) noted that, ‘He was an experimenter in technique and an extremely rapid worker, whose facility and skill were astonishing… Always he is vigorous… he left a series of prints of great power in which he has achieved a scale astonishing within such a small limit.’
Collections
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Kirkcaldy Galleries
National Portrait Gallery, London
Rye Art Gallery
Tate Britain, London
Literature
Calloway S (1980), English Prints for the Collector, Lutterworth Press
Gray B (1937), The English Print, Adam and Charles Black
Heard A (2001), Whistler, Haden and the Rise of the Painter-Etcher, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle
Johnson J and Greutzner A (1999), British Artists 1880-1940, Antique Collectors’ Club
Mackenzie I (1988), British Prints, Antique Collectors’ Club
Spalding F (1990), 20th Century Painter and Sculptors, Antique Collectors’ Club
Waters G M (1975), Dictionary of British Artists 1900-1950, Eastbourne Fine Art
Strang was born at Dumbarton and in 1875, aged 16, he moved to London to study under Alphonse Legros at the Slade School.
A prolific artist, Strang was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1891 (where he exhibited over 160 works during the course of his career) and a Royal Academician in 1921. He produced over 750 etchings, drypoints and other prints as well as oils and watercolours.
Discussing his prints, Gray (1937, p.176) noted that, ‘He was an experimenter in technique and an extremely rapid worker, whose facility and skill were astonishing… Always he is vigorous… he left a series of prints of great power in which he has achieved a scale astonishing within such a small limit.’
Collections
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Kirkcaldy Galleries
National Portrait Gallery, London
Rye Art Gallery
Tate Britain, London
Literature
Calloway S (1980), English Prints for the Collector, Lutterworth Press
Gray B (1937), The English Print, Adam and Charles Black
Heard A (2001), Whistler, Haden and the Rise of the Painter-Etcher, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle
Johnson J and Greutzner A (1999), British Artists 1880-1940, Antique Collectors’ Club
Mackenzie I (1988), British Prints, Antique Collectors’ Club
Spalding F (1990), 20th Century Painter and Sculptors, Antique Collectors’ Club
Waters G M (1975), Dictionary of British Artists 1900-1950, Eastbourne Fine Art