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 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 of Balephetrish Bay in 1928.
The north-east corner of Balephetrish Bay photographed 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 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.
Colour photograph of a painting of Balephetrish by Robert Bruce Webster.
Watercolour painting by Robert Bruce Webster of his children Lorna (8) and Randolph (4) on Balephetrish beach in 1928.
Black and white photograph of a coal puffer on Balephetrish beach.
Puffer discharging coal into horse-drawn carts on Balephetrish beach.
Journal extract `The Tiree and Iona Marbles` by A. K. Coomaraswamy.
Description, location and analysis of Tiree marble.
