Print of the Day!! Wed, Apr. 10, 2024 is by David Young Cameron (1865-1945). "Little Devil of Florence"; intaglio, 1907, proof.

Print of the Day!! Wednesday, April 10, 2024 is by Scottish printmaker David Young Cameron (1865-1945). Check out our virtual booth at the Satellite Print Fair's on-line website: OnPaper.art:?https://onpaper.art/the-annex-galleries ?

"Little Devil of Florence" is an intaglio, an etching with drypoint, done in 1907 by Scottish printmaker David Young Cameron (1865-1945). The platemark measures 14-7/8 x 8-5/8 inches. This impression is pencil signed and titled in the lower margin, signed in the plate in the lower right image and was printed by the artist in an unstated edition on an ivory laid paper that measures 16-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches. References for this image include Rinder 401, state ii/ii and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, accession number P1623. The gallery inventory number for this intaglio is 24896.

This scarce intaglio by the great Scottish printmaker David Young Cameron (1865-1945) is available from the gallery for $400.00. Contact the gallery with any condition or other questions. Shipping costs will be discussed. California residents will have sales tax added. Out of state residents may be responsible for use tax, depending on state law.

From the National Galleries of Scotland: "The exercise of giving visual life to small figures and objects seemed to fascinate Cameron. The sculpture shown in this print was modelled by Giovanni da Bologna (Giambologna, c.1524–1608). It was originally used as a sconce, or light fixture, mounted on the corner of Palazzo Vecchietti in Florence. The Palazzo's fa?ade was entirely modelled by Giambologna in 1578, when he probably included his bronze cast of the Little Devil or 'Diavolino'. The original bronze is now in the Museo Stefano Bardini in Florence. Cameron may have seen this on his trip to Italy in 1900. Through Cameron's line the little bronze devil has been given a fleshy and lifelike character."?

Scottish printmaker and painter Sir David Young Cameron was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1865, the son of a clergyman. He attended the Glasgow School of Art from 1881 and enrolled at the Edinburgh Schools of Art in 1885. By the late 1880s he was a noted etcher and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1895. An celebrated painter, he took inspiration from Muirhead Bone and to some degree the Glasgow Boys--whose aim was to highlight the multi-faceted landscapes and daily lives of rural Scotland--as well as the Hague School. Largely known for his dark, heavy Scottish landscapes through the early 1910s, trips to Italy and France lightened his palette somewhat; additionally, he broke away from figurative depictions, choosing instead to focus on landscape and architectural subjects. His interest in reviving printmaking as a fine art was shared by leading British and American artists of the time, including James McNeil Whistler.

Cameron became a member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, later known as The International, an anti-Royal Academy, non-nationalistic association of artists ?founded by Whistler, Francis Howard, and James Guthrie in 1897. He exhibited regularly with the society from 1898 into the early 1910s, and became himself a highly successful etcher whose works were highly collectable during the Etching Revival.

Exhibitions took him throughout the Britain and abroad. In 1917 he was commissioned by the Canadian Government to paint the war in France, producing a series of images for the Hall of Remembrance. In 1924 he was knighted and was elected Trustee of the Tate Gallery and the Scottish National Gallery from 1921 to 1927. He was given title of King's Painter and Limner in 1933. In his lifetime, Cameron produced over 500 prints, primarily etchings and drypoints. They can ba found in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the British Museum, the National Gallery of Scotland, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Art Institute of Chicago. David Young Cameron died in Perth, Scotland in 1945.

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