Macbeth family photographs

Category

Library Item

Item no

41344

Title

Macbeth family photographs

Description

Macbeth family photographs between the years 1826 and 1870, including Norman Macbeth R.S.A.

Page from Sheila Macbeth Mitchell Scrapbook (1890-1920), who served as a nurse during World War One and who travelled on the H.S. Britannic final ill-fated voyage.

Artist / maker

Mitchell, Sheila Macbeth

Date

1905

Size

35.5 x 26.5 cm

Type

Document; Photograph

Copyright

Reproduced by kind permission of the family of Sheila Macbeth Mitchell

Sheila Macbeth Mitchell's roots were in Scotland, her great-grandfather James Macbeth had been an Excise Officer in Port Glasgow and both her grandfather and father were born in Greenock. Her grandfather Norman was a portrait painter who, when he came to Edinburgh in 1861 gained employment as a portrait painter and was elected A.R.S.A (Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy) in 1870 and R.S.A. (Royal Scottish Academy) in 1880.

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