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Alexander Skirving, fl. 1880-1913

Nationality: Scottish
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Alexander Skirving was a Glasgow architect.

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He exhibited between 1880 and 1913 at the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1891 he was a signatory to a petition urging Glasgow Corporation to purchase Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (YMSM 137) (#12326).

Bibliography:

Greutzner, A., and Johnson, J., The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1980