David Foggie RSA RSW, 1878-1948

Born in Dundee, Foggie studied in Paris, Antwerp and Italy. The artist George Dutch Davidson, the most talented of the east-coast contemporaries of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, became a close friend of his in Dundee. They studied together, although Foggie was less influenced by the Celtic and Symbolist movements than Davidson.
Foggie painted portraits and figures in an assured manner, and was in demand as a robust yet elegant portrait painter between the wars. He was an accomplished draughtsman and taught drawing at Edinburgh College of Art. His contemporaries considered him a painter's painter.