.Country Homes Antiques Scotland est 1985

GEORGE MELVIN RENNIE (SCOTTISH 1874-1953), DEESIDE TOWARDS BALLATER.

George Melvin Rennie studied at Gray’s School of Art and Aberdeen School of Design.

 In the late 19th and early 20th century, he became one of Scotland’s most popular landscape painters. Granted access to the Balmoral Estate. Over the next 25 years, he painted many iconic views of the Scottish residence and its 50,000 acres of surrounding Aberdeen-shire countryside. There are many landscapes by Rennie still remain in some of the properties on the Balmoral Estate. A great many crossed the Atlantic during the first half of the 20thcentury having been purchased by American visitors to Scotland. Today fine Scottish landscapes by George Melvin Rennie are as popular as ever with collectors on both sides of the Atlantic.

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