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.
Black and white photograph of view from Ceann a` Bharra in 1928.
View from Ceann a` Bharra, photographed by Robert Bruce Webster in 1928.
Colour photograph of a painting of the view of Mull from Tiree by Robert Bruce Webster.
Watercolour painting of the view of Mull and the mainland from Tiree in 1928 by Robert Bruce Webster.
Black and white photograph of Randolph Webster and Hugh MacPhail of Balephetrish in 1928.
Randolph Webster sitting on the knee of Hugh MacPhail, Balephetrish Farm, photographed by Robert Bruce Webster in 1928.
Black and white photograph of a Tiree thatched house.
A Tiree thatched house.
Black and white photograph of Ceann a` Bhara.
Ceann a` Bhara.
Black and white photograph of view of Tiree.
View over Balephetrish Bay taken by Robert Bruce Webster in 1928.
Black and white photograph of holiday group in the 1920s.
Holiday group on the beach, probably Balephetrish, taken by Robert Bruce Webster in 1928.
Black and white photograph of Randolph Webster in 1928.
Randolph Webster photographed by his father Robert Bruce Webster at Balephetrish Farm in 1928.
Black and white photograph taken aboard the ferry in 1928.
Aboard the ferry, taken by Robert Bruce Webster in 1928.
