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Biography of Robert Reid

American Impressionist artist, muralist
born 1862 - died 1929
Student of: Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (1824-1888), Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836-1911)

REID, ROBERT (1842-1904), merchant and politician, was born on 18 October 1842 at Leven, Fifeshire, Scotland, second son of Robert Reid, bookseller, and his wife Catherine, née Lambert. Robert Reid was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston under Otto Grundmann, where the artist was also later an instructor.

For seventeen years Robert Reid worked in the wholesale warehouse of William Watson and Sons, Swanston Street, before setting up as a wholesale drapery importer in Flinders Lane in January 1874, with partners Edward Warne and John Adair. Two years later the firm became Warne and Robert Reid artist. Handsome new premises were built in 1881 for the staff of 90.

When the boom collapsed Robert Reid was one of the veterans called on to represent the new business movement, the National Association, in colonial politics and was returned to the Legislative Council in October 1892 for Melbourne Province.

Robert Reid painter had a long connection with the Collins Street Baptist Church. The muralist was chairman of the Baptist Union of Victoria and secretary of its theological college for many years. A prominent philanthropist, Robert Reid contributed £1000 for a wing of the Homoeopathic Hospital.

Robert Reid had suffered from diabetes for ten years and died in diabetic coma on 12 May 1904 in a London hotel, while on holiday, and was buried in Hampstead cemetery. When the unexpected news reached 'The Lane', warehouse flags were flown at half-mast.

Upon returning to New York in 1889, Robert Reid worked as a portraitist and later became an instructor at the Art Students League and Cooper Union. Much of Robert Reid art centered on the depiction of young women set among flowers. His oil paintings tended to be very decorative, and he became known for mural decoration and designs for stained glass. Robert Reid contributed with others to the frescoes of the dome of the Liberal Arts Building at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, in 1893.

In 1897, Reid was a member of the Ten American Painters, who seceded from the Society of American Artists. In 1906 he became a full member of the National Academy of Design. Around the turn of the century, Robert Reid worked on several mural projects and when he returned to paintings, around 1905, his artwork was more naturalistic, even though his palette trended toward soft pastels.