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          Biography.

        1. Biography.
        2. The leading Scottish landscape painter of his period.
        3. A quiet, balanced, friendly and generous personality, very different from my idea of the traditional highly strung artist.
        4. Born in Loanhead, Midlothian, MacTaggart was the grandson of the artist William McTaggart, the leading Scottish landscape painter of his period.
        5. Scottish painter, grandson of William McTaggart (–), who had been the leading Scottish landscape painter of his period.

          6. A quiet, balanced, friendly and generous personality, very different from my idea of the traditional highly strung artist.!

          William MacTaggart

          Scottish painter (1903–1981)

          Sir William MacTaggart, FRSE RA PPRSA (1903–1981) was a Scottish painter known for his landscapes of East Lothian, France, Norway and elsewhere.

          He is sometimes called William MacTaggart the Younger to distinguish him from his grandfather, the painter William McTaggart.

          Life and work

          William MacTaggart was born on 15 May 1903 at Westbank in Loanhead, Midlothian, the son of Hugh Holmes MacTaggart[1] an engineer and partner of MacTaggart Scott & Co.[2]

          He went to Edinburgh College of Art between 1918 and 1921, and there he made friends with other young artists like William Gillies, William Geissler, Anne Redpath, John Maxwell, William Crozier and Adam Bruce Thomson.

          Later they would be considered the core group of the Edinburgh School. Crozier was a major artistic influence on MacTaggart, and he joined his friend on some of his trips to the south of France, made for the sake of MacTaggart's