1. Stanley Cursiter was an Orcadian artist who played an important role in introducing Post-Impressionism and Futurism to Scotland.
11 Facts About Stanley Cursiter
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Stanley Cursiter served as the keeper, then director, of the National Galleries of Scotland, and as HM Limner and Painter in Scotland.
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Stanley Cursiter was born on 29 April 1887 at 15 East Road in Kirkwall, Orkney, the son of John Scott Cursiter and Mary Joan Thomson.
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Stanley Cursiter was Mentioned in Dispatches twice and received a military OBE.
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Stanley Cursiter was the first Secretary of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland and was appointed Keeper of the National Galleries of Scotland in 1930, a post he held until 1948.
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Stanley Cursiter painted watercolour landscapes of East Lothian, Orkney and Shetland, and designed Saint Rognvald Chapel in St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall.
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Stanley Cursiter is particularly renowned for his portraits and is considered amongst the finest Scottish portraitists of the 20th Century.
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Stanley Cursiter painted 'Her Majesty The Queen receiving the Honours of Scotland' in the High Kirk of St Giles in 1953, this painting hangs on the Great Stair, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh.
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Stanley Cursiter was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1938, a rare accolade for an artist.
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Stanley Cursiter's proposers were James Pickering Kendall, Leonard Dobbin, James Watt, and Sir Ernest Wedderburn.
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Stanley Cursiter was influential in the campaign to create a Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.