Four postcard sized prints of watercolour paintings by Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959.
Four postcard sized prints of watercolour paintings by Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959 – on holiday at Balephetrish in 1928; looking NE from Balephetrish Hill towards Rhum, Muck and Skye; looking SW along Balephetrish Bay; rocks at Balephetrish.
Framed print of watercolour by Robert Bruce Webster.
Framed print of watercolour of the view looking NE from Balephetrish Hill towards Rhum, Muck and Skye painted in 1928 by Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959.
Print of watercolour by Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959.
Print of a watercolour looking SW along Balephetrish Bay painted in the 1920s by Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959.
Print of watercolour by Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959.
Print of a watercolour of the red rocks at Traigh Thorasdail painted in the 1920s by Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959.
Print of watercolour by Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959.
Print of a watercolour of children on balephetrish beach painted in the 1928 by Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959.
Black and white photograph of Robert Bruce Webster 1892-1959.
Robert Bruce Webster (1892-1959), a Scottish watercolourist whose principal productive period lay between the early 1920s and the 1950s. For examples of his work in Tiree, see photographs E85-E91.
Biographical notes about Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959.
Biographical notes about Robert Bruce Webster, 1892-1959, from his son.
Colour photograph of a painting of the north-east of Balephetrish Bay by Robert Bruce Webster.
Watercolour painting of the north-east of Balephetrish Bay in 1928 by Robert Bruce Webster.
Black and white photograph of the Webster children in 1928.
The Webster children in the cart with Mr. MacPhail leading the horse, taken outside Balephetrish House by Robert Bruce Webster in 1928.
The view from Balephetrish Hill by Robert Bruce Webster
Photograph of a watercolour painting of the view from Balephetrish Hill in 1928 by Robert Bruce Webster, D.A.
Born in Edinburgh in 1892, Robert Bruce Webster was a Scottish watercolourist whose principle productive period lay between the early 1920s and 1950s. He trained at Edinburgh College of Art and served throughout World War I.
Subsequently he taught professionally at Barnstable Grammar School in Devon, and at Dollar Academy and Edinburgh Ladies College. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Society of Watercolourists, the Society of Scottish Artists and Glasgow Fine Arts Society.
He visited Tiree with his wife and children in 1928, during which time he painted several views of the island including this one looking north-east from Balephetrish Hill towards Rum and Skye. He died in Fife in 1959.
Colour photograph of a painting of the view from Balephetrish Hill by Robert Bruce Webster.
Watercolour painting of the view from Balephetrish Hill in 1928 by Robert Bruce Webster.
