부산대학교 도서관

(b Finnart, Dunbartonshire [now Strathclyde], Oct 14, 1855; d Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire [now Central], Sept 28, 1923). Scottish painter. He trained as a pupil of James Docharty (1829–78) and then at the Slade School of Fine Art in London under Alphonse Legros. This informal training, his slight superiority in age and his financial independence made him a natural leader for the younger painters of the Glasgow Boys. His studio at 134 Bath Street, Glasgow, became a meeting place for James Guthrie, John Lavery, E. A. Walton, George Henry, Joseph Crawhall and others of the group. Here they shared models and materials and discussed the new ideas of the young French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage, whose naturalist painting attracted them. After his return to Scotland from London, Macgregor practised a form of plein-air painting, spending each summer on the east coast with the painter James Paterson (1854–1932) and returning to Glasgow for the winter. In the winter of 1882–3, however, he began work on a large painting directly inspired by Bastien-Lepage, showing a girl selling vegetables from a stall. The life-size figure was removed by the artist in ...