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James A. Dron, ca 1866- after 1929

Nationality: Scottish
Date of Birth: 1866 ca
Place of Birth: Glasgow ?
Date of Death: after 1929
Place of Death: Glasgow ?

Identity:

James A. Dron was a Glasgow artist.

Life:

Dron illustrated The age of the horse how to tell it ... (1897). He exhibited between 1892 and 1929 at the Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colours and Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. He was among those Glasgow painters who in 1891 appended their names to a list requesting that the Corporation of Glasgow buy Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (YMSM 137) [#12326].

Bibliography:

Dron, James A., The age of the horse how to tell it ..., Glasgow, 1897; Johnson, J., and A. Greutzner, The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, Woodbridge, 1980.