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.
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 taken aboard the ferry in 1928.
Aboard the ferry, taken by Robert Bruce Webster in 1928.
Black and white photograph of a Tiree thatched house.
A Tiree thatched house.
Black and white photograph of Balephetrish Bay in 1928.
The north-east corner of Balephetrish Bay photographed by Robert Bruce Webster in 1928.
Black and white photograph of Ceann a` Bhara.
Ceann a` Bhara.
Black and white photograph of holiday-makers taken in 1928.
Holiday-makers (MacPhail guests) photographed by Robert Bruce Webster in 1928.
Black and white photograph of view of Tiree.
View over Balephetrish Bay taken by Robert Bruce Webster in 1928.
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.
Black and white photograph of holiday group in the 1920s.
Holiday group on the beach, probably Balephetrish, taken by Robert Bruce Webster in 1928.
