ARTIST: John Douglas Michie (United Kingdom, 1828 - 1893)
TITLE: Village Scene
YEAR: 1887
MEDIUM: watercolor on paper
CONDITION: Some age toning. Framed under glass. Some damages to frame.
ART SIZE: 20 x 15 inches / 50 x 38 cm
FRAME SIZE: 28 x 22 inches / 71 x 55 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left and on verso
LOCATION: This lot is located at our Mamaroneck, NY office.
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer
SKU#: 151327
US SHIPPING: $95 + insurance.

BIOGRAPHY:
John Douglas Michie (c.1828 - 1893) was an Edinburgh artist who exhibited and sold paintings for most of his adult life. At first he was known professionally as John Michie or John M. Michie, and later as John D. Michie. Comparing addresses from lists of exhibitors with addresses in genealogical records etc. proves this is one single person. In the 1840s/50s there may have been another John Michie painting around Kelso.He came from a modest background. His father Henry was an excise officer who had started out as a shoemaker, and died in 1833 when John was still very young. By 1841 John was an engraver's apprentice, his brother a shoemaker's apprentice, and one sister a milliner. His other two sisters became trimming makers. They all lived with their mother Elizabeth.. Elizabeth Heriot, daughter of a nurseryman. Ten years later the census described John Michie as "Painter & Designer assist.". In the same year, 1851, a John Michie, lithographer, won a prize at the Edinburgh School of Design for his design for a drawing-room.