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Dugald Sutherland MacColl (
10 March,
1859 –
2 December,
1948) was a
Scottish watercolour painter,
art critic,
lecturer and
writer. He was keeper of the
Tate gallery for five years.
Life
MacColl was born in
Glasgow and educated at the
University of London and the
University of Oxford between 1876 and 1884. He also studied at the
Westminster School of Art and the
Slade School under
Alphonse Legros between 1884 and 1892. Although an accomplished watercolourist, he's best remembered as a writer and lecturer on art. From 1890 to 1895 he was art critic for
The Spectator, and for
Saturday Review from 1896 to 1906. MacColl became a member of the
New English Art Club in 1896, and edited the
Architectural Review from 1901 to 1905.
He published the authoritative book,
Nineteenth Century Art, in 1902
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) and his biography
Philip Wilson Steer was awarded the 1945
James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In his journalism and books he was a major advocate of the
French Impressionists, and was influential in spreading their ideas and shaping public attitudes in Britain towards favouring Impressionism. From 1906 to 1911 he was keeper of the
Tate Gallery and, after the retirement of Sir Claude Phillips, the
Wallace Collection from 1911 to 1924.
Dugald Sutherland MacColl died in 1948 in
London. A Memorial Exhibition of his work was held at the
Tate Gallery in 1950.
Campaigns
During his career, MacColl campaigned for a number of artistically controversial causes.
In 1903, in the
Saturday Review, he argued that the administrators of the estate of Sir Francis Chantrey, who had left a bequest to the Royal Academy to fund the purchase of artworks for the nation, were departing from the terms and buying mediocre works. After his subsequent book in 1904,
Administration of the Chantrey Bequest, a government committee initiated reforms. He also campaigned for the government to spend more on art, resulting in the founding in 1903 of the National Art Collections Fund.
In the 1920s he campaigned, unsuccessfully, for the preservation of
John Rennie's
Waterloo Bridge.
Herbert Morrison and
London County Council were eventually successful in their advocacy for its demolition and replacement.
Other causes included his opposition, as a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission, to the 1925 proposal to build a
sacristy under the north wall of
Westminster Abbey. He was also a central figure in discussions of "Gothic" additions to Oxford colleges, and in efforts to preserve the
Foundling Hospital.
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