Dear Guyon, Monica, Frances, I am very interested in your messages and would be delighted to be kept in the thread. I am particularly intrested in Peter McArthur from Cawdor (related my my own Macarthurs) and brother-in-law of one of my ancestors. If there is any 18th century Macarthur genealogy that you are able to obtain from Australia, I would be delighted to know!
You wrote
Glasgow Courier, of May 1794 ...an advertisement announcing that he (Galloway) and a Mr Williams had moved their drawing academy to Horns Court, Argyll St. He moved in 1801 to Smith's land, Trongate, Glasgow, and from 1811-1812 was residing at 6 James Sq, Edinburgh. His wife, Ann, nee Rowland, had 2 daughters, Catherine (later Mrs Hadway 1803-1867) and Mary (later Mrs Wallan Brown.) Alexander's sister was Jean and a Colonel John Campbell was a cousin of Ann Rowland. (Info from 2 books by Daphne Foskett.)
Of interest is that one of the executors of the will of Mr. Williams was Aeneas McBean, WS Edinburgh, also from Inverness (19th century).
The following on the web: ...had no children and Williams became unwell in the summer of 1828, dying on the 14th June the following year after a very painful illness. He was buried in the Miller family plot in the Canongate churchyard, Edinburgh on the 22nd June.
Robina and the artist's other Trustees, Aeneas MacBean, WS. and the miniature painter, W. J. Thomson [1771-1845], arranged a studio sale in 1831 but the sale catalogue makes it clear that this did not include any of his Greek material and no significant oil paintings. Some of his Greek watercolours and smaller Greek subjects in Sepia -the latter made for publication in the Select Views in Greece - were sold on the death of Aeneas MacBean in 1858. Robina presented a collection of works, which included large exhibition watercolours of Greece, a bronze model of the Parthenon and one oil canvas, to the newly opened National Gallery of Scotland, in 1859. Most of this group hung almost continuously in one of the small octagonal rooms in the Gallery until the late 1950's. It has been established here that this was the earliest permanent, public exhibition of watercolours, in Britain ..
Again thanks, Jane