11 Facts About Ancell Stronach

Ancell Stronach was a Scottish artist born in Dundee.

Ancell Stronach was winner of the Royal Scottish Academy Guthrie Award in April 1927.

Ancell Stronach was initially a student and later became Professor of Mural Painting at the Glasgow School of Art.

Ancell Stronach's chosen style and subject reflects the wider Celtic Revival movement prevalent in Scotland's arts scene at the time, and is visible in the work of other artists such as John Duncan and Phoebe Anna Traquair.

Ancell Stronach exhibited at the Paris Salon, the Royal Scottish Academy, at the Royal Academy and in Canada, New Zealand and America.

About Glasgow in the mid twenties, Ancell Stronach had a most distinctive style of dress.

Ancell Stronach always wore a high-winged collar and black stock, such as Walter Scott is seen wearing in his portraits, a very waisted jacket, narrow black-and-white checked trousers and white spats.

Ancell Stronach was a mural and church decorator and stained glass designer.

Ancell Stronach toured extensively with his wife, Gwendoline Eleanor Cunningham.

Ancell Stronach continued to paint but gave away his paintings to friends and relatives.

Ancell Stronach's work fell from favour during his later years, and he died in relative obscurity, in Kent, in 1981.