Anderson Trust

Richard De’Ath           

 (1927 – 2011)

Richard De’Ath was a successful and highly respected Glasgow architect who lived for most of his working life in Helensburgh. He was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, but grew up in Paisley, where his father was a chief chemist at J&P Coats. 

William Daniell, RA
(1769 – 1837)

Portrait of William Daniell

by Richard Westall, drawing master

Robert Cree Crawford 

                                                  (c. 1842 – 1924)

Robert Cree Crawford was born in Govenbank and studied at Glasgow University before moving to Canada. He returned to Scotland and was elected a member of the RSW in 1878.  He gained a reputation for his portraits in oils and also painted watercolour landscapes and marine scenes.

John Heaviside Clark (c. 1770 – 1863)

John Heaviside Clark was born in Scotland in c.1770.  Most of his early working life as a painter and draughtsman was spent in London, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy 1812-32.  He was acknowledged for his expertise in etchings and aquatints and often collaborated with Matthew Dubourg, signing simply as “Clark”.  He was also known as “Waterloo Clark” from the sketches he made of the battlefield in 1815.  He published a book “The Amateur Assistant “ in 1826 in which  he describes his invention of a portable diorama.

John Cameron Carslaw  (1920 – 2016)

John Carslaw was born in Glasgow in 1920.  He was the second youngest of a family of five.  His father was a surgeon and his mother an artist.  When his father retired, he bought a house in Rhu and a clinker built boat called Rowan.  The family spent many summers sailing around the West Coast of Scotland where John developed his love of sailing.  He attended boarding school in Edinburgh.

Evelyn Carslaw (1881 – 1968)

Evelyn Carslaw was born in Glasgow.  Her family, the Workmans came from Northern Ireland and were keen art collectors.  After attending Laurel Bank School, Evelyn studied at Glasgow School of Art and in Paris.

William Carlaw  (1847 – 1889)

Born in Glasgow in 1847, older brother of John Carlaw, William Carlaw lived in Helensburgh.  He was an accomplished watercolour painter and is best known for his marine subjects, inspired either by the west coast of Scotland or Cornwall.

John Carlaw, RSW (1850 – 1934)

Born in Glasgow in 1850, John Carlaw began his working life as a designer at the Saracen Foundry but retired early in the mid 1890's to devote himself fulltime to painting.  As he had family connections with Helensburgh, he came here to live with two sisters at Seacliffe on East Clyde Street, which subsequently became part of the Queen's Hotel and, later, was converted into flats as Queen's Court. 

Tom Campbell  (1865 - 1943)

Tom Campbell painted views of the west coast and islands, using a sharp, highly coloured style.  He was a most prolific painter, Mainly in watercolour or gouache, whose subjects included landscapes with sheep; children playing on sandy beaches; and marine scenes such as the one in the Anderson Trust Collection.  He sold many of his works through the Glasgow department store Daly’s.

                                                    Edith Buchanan

1889 – 1978

Edith Buchanan was the daughter of J.G. Chrystal of Broomhill, Cardross.  She served as a VAD in Dumbarton during the First World War and, in 1919, she married John Buchanan and moved to his estancia in the Argentine, returning to Scotland in 1923.  Until the outbreak of World War II  they lived at Ardpeaton in Coulport.  In 1939 they bought Rowmore in Rhu, which was home for the family and, latterly for  Edith Buchanan and her two daughters, for over thirty years.

Sam Bough, ARSA, RSA, RSW

  (1822 – 1878)

Sam Bough was born in Carlisle to James Bough, a shoemaker, and Lucy Walker, a cook.  He had no formal art training but showed an early aptitude for painting and benefited from the company of local artists. He was strongly influenced by the work of Turner and of Horatio McCulloch. 

Lily was the daughter of Dr Charles Blatherwick of Rhu, a medical doctor and talented watercolour painter. Although neither Lily nor her father had any formal art training, both were founder members of the Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1878 (later to become the RSW).