James Cromar Watt Dr
Born 1863 (Circa)
Active: 1904 - 1935
Country of birth and death: Scotland
Sculptor, jeweller, enamellist
Born in Aberdeen. The son of 'Gunner Alick Watt, a book-keeper to a local law firm. According to 'Reporting Reminiscences' of 1904 James 'ranks high to-day in artistic circles as a worker of rare skill in enamels.' [see Carnie (1904) p. 126]
Works
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Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1919
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1935
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1919
'Shield, Scottish Lion'
Sources
1871 Scotland Census
2007
Parish: Aberdeen St Nicholas; ED: 35; Page: 9; Line: 10; Roll CSSCT1871_32; Year: 1871 [presume this is the correct citation due to location and unusual name]
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Sixteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1919
November 1919
p. 46
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-Third Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1935
November 1935
p. 70 (513)
Gray's School of Art Prospectus 1910-1911
1910
Member of the Gray's School of Arts and Crafts Committee.
Reporting Reminiscences (Further Aberdeen Reminiscences, Additional Aberdeen Reminiscences)
1904
Vol. 2 (1904), p. 126
Citing this record
'James Cromar Watt Dr', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib6_1243520275, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
