THE
S SS Sir William Quiller Orchardsonir William Orchardsonir (27 March 1832 – 13 April 1910)
Of distinguished appearance, if of slight physique, Orchardson was very active and lithe. In early life he hunted, and at Westgate he became a devotee of tennis, for which he had an open court built. He was also a keen angler, especially with the dry fly, and latterly took to golf. Indoors he played billiards and talked with penetrating insight. Apart from the portrait of himself in the Uffizi, there are others by Tom Graham (seated half length, in Lady Orchardson's possession), by J. H. Lorimer (in Scottish National Portrait Gallery), and by his son, as well as a bronze bust by E.
Four of Orchardson's best pictures are in the Tate Gallery, London, and he is represented by characteristic examples in the permanent collections in Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh. The 'Voltaire' was included in Mr. Schwabe's gift to Hamburg and the larger version of 'The First Cloud' was acquired for the art gallery at Melbourne, Victoria. Sixty-eight pictures, illustrating every phase of his art, except the charcoal drawings and studies in which his draughtsmanship was often seen at its best, were brought together at the winter exhibition of the Royal Academy in 1911.
Sir William Quiller Orchardson by Henry Weigall
Alice Fairfaax Rhodes
Amy Robsart
Miss Joanna Isabella Dick
Mrs Hay Robertson
Thomas Alexander Graham
The Borgia
of the Artist's Daughter Hilda Orchardson (b.1875) and One of her Younger Brothers
The Artist's Wife, Ellen Moxon (c.1854–1917), Lady Orchardson
Christopher Sly.
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