Duncan
Cameron
(1837-1916)
Duncan
Cameron was born in Perthshire and educated at Dundee and South
Kensington, Cameron exhibited mainly between 1880 and 1908.
He is best known as a fine landscape painter of the Scottish
countryside with a particular fondness for scenes of cornfields
- his obituary in the Scotsman noted ‘his distinctive note...
best expressed in the treatment of cornfields’. Basing
his work around Stirling and Edinburgh, between 1872-1900 he
exhibited at the RA and at the Society of British Artists. In
1876 he was awarded the Gold Medal at Crystal Palace for showing
the best landscape. He died in Edinburgh aged 79.
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