The Golden Age of Glasgow’s Art Trade: September 1877 – Art Dealers in Glasgow – Mr Craibe Angus, of Queen Street

An article on page four of the North British Daily Mail, on Friday the 21st of September, 1877, reads:

 

“FINE ARTS.—The dealers in art are already preparing for their winter campaign against the pockets of

collectors. Among them is Mr Craibe Angus, of Queen Street, who has on view a collection of oils and

water colours, etchings, &c., with other sundries calculated to meet the taste of connoisseurs. The gallery

includes various ‘gems’ of unequal merit by British and foreign artists, including a ghostly Pettie, very

indifferent Orchardson, and a plaintive-looking donkey up to the knees in snow, underneath which is

‘Mac W.;’ T. Faed’s ‘Only Herself’ is also to be seen; and a French ‘etang’ by Daubigny. The pick of the gallery

is comprised in a set of water-colour sketches by Sam Bough, from the Lews, Clydesdale, and elsewhere, any

one of which, especially one or two of the Druidical stones at Collernish [sic], with exquisite skies and moorland

lines, is worth half-a-dozen of the more finished pictures in oils. Some of them would make the future of any

collection, and we wish such things were oftener seen in exhibitions.”

 

 

 

The British Newspaper Archive.

 

 

 

George Fairfull-Smith, July 2024.