British painter, etcher, and draughtsman.
He was born in Dumbarton, where he was briefly apprenticed to a shipbuilding firm before moving to London (he lived there for the rest of his life) and studying at the *Slade School, 1876–80.
Under the guidance of Alphonse *Legros he took up etching and it was in this field that he originally made a name for himself.
By the mid-1890s he had an international reputation, but from this time he turned increasingly to painting, and after the turn of the century he was regarded more as a painter-etcher than an etcher-painter.
