DEATH OF AN ARTIST.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1071, 9 March 1911, Page 9

DEATH OF AN ARTIST.

' JAMBS DOUGLAS MOULTRAY. The death is recotded with regret of Mr. James Douglas Moultray, whodiedat Dunediu on Sunday at the age of eighty years. Mr. Moultray was a painter of .much merit. He was born in iidiiibur"h, Scotland, on November 9, 1831. He "received the lirst lessons in his art from Mr. Walter Ferguson, then art. master at the Edinburgh High School, after which ho attended-drawing classes at the Itoyal Institute. At that time tho work of restoring old paintings was regarded as one of the best means for beginners to obtain knowledge. Mr. Moultray became a picture-restorer, and rapidly gained a good insight into his work. His first picture he sent to the Royal Scottish Academy, and it was immediately hung on the line. Horatio M'Cullough, said to be* Scotland's most exquisite landscape painter, then offered tho young painter the privileged position as his assistant, which was accepted and retained until (he death of Mr. M'Cullough. Mr. Gourley Steel, animal painter in Scotland to the late Queen Victoria, then endeavoured to sccurc Mr. Moultray's services, but Iho offer was declined. Mr. Moultray then commenced to work independently. Ilis productions met with great success, and were exhibited in the Art Galleries of London, Manchester. Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee. He possessed his art certificate from the London International Exhibition, 1871. His best works have lx?en hung with such great artists as I.eighlcn, Tadema, and Noel Paton. He came to New Zealand in the latter end of 1883, and has resided in .Duucdin ever since. His paintings have always been hold in high regard. A brother artist has given it as his opinion that Mr. Moultray was tho greatest painter in the Southern Ilemisphero. . High prices wore always offered for his works. Mr. Moultray leave.s a widow and one son—Mr. J. Elder Moultray, who is already widely known as a painter,-"Draetlin "Star,"