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Charles James Lauder (29 January 1841 - 27 April 1920) was a Scottish painter. He was born in Maryhill in the Barony parish of Glasgow.

Life
His father was James Thompson Lauder (c. 1806 - 9 October 1851). He was a portrait painter, but also a pattern designer for textiles.

His mother was Rachel Currie (c. 1806 - 28 March 1888), a daughter of Peter Currie and a Miss McArthur.

His parents married on on 1 April 1838 in Glasgow.

His sister was Jane Lauder (born c. 1829). At the 1841 census, taken in Scotland on 6 June that year, Charles age is given as 4 months old. Their address is given as Bull Land, Maryhill.

He was educated at the village school in Maryhill.

He married Mary McCallum, a music teacher, (born 13 December 1844) on 7 December 1876 in Partick. Mary was the daughter of David McCallum (born c. 1812) and Christina Harvey (1813 - 1890).

At the time of his marriage, Lauder was staying in 150 Buccleuch Street and the couple then continued to live there for the next few years.

In 1881 they were still staying at 150 Buccleuch Street in Glasgow.

By the 1885-86 local census return for Glasgow the couple were staying at 517 Sauchiehall Street.

1888 guest at Napier, Shanks and Bell shipyard at Yoker.

In 1888-89 Glasgow census register he was staying at 517 Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, as an artist.

His mother Rachel died on 28 March 1888 in Barnhill Poorhouse (near Stobhill), her usual residence was at 165 Gairbraid Street. Her cause of death is marked as debility, a Victorian term: 'in old age due to loss of weight from undiagnosed cancer or other disorder'.

Lauder moved to England in 1890 and lived for 15 years at 3 St. Helena Terrace, Richmond on Thames. His wife Mary (McCallum) Lauder was with him, but unfortunately she died in December 1901.

He was to remarry. He married Gertrude Annie Ashton on 30 September 1903 in Haslemere in Surrey. He was still staying in Richmond at the time, and Gertrude had evidently came south from Glasgow for a time.

In 1905 Charles James Lauder is still at Richmond in Surrey, but after this he returns back to Glasgow with Gertrude.

Art
He went to the Glasgow School of Art and studied under Charles Heath Wilson, then called the Glasgow School of Design.

He was an elegant draughtsman, and became very good at painting towns and cities. His early work is of the Clyde area around Glasgow.

1881 RGI exhibition.

In 1884 he was exhibiting at Crystal Palace, London. Winning a prize.

1885 Greenock exhibition.

1891 Old harbour, Pittenweem at exhibit.

He painted in Italy, France and Holland.

Death
The Scotsman of Thursday 29 April 1920 reported his death. Death of a Glasgow Artist. — The death has occurred at Thortonhall, near Glasgow, of Mr C. J. Lauder, R.S.W., who gained his first experience in the old Glasgow Art School with such contemporaries as David Murray, Colin Hunter and Joseph Henderson. His father, James Thompson Lauder, was a portrait painter, and a cousin of the more famous Robert Scott Lauder. Mr. C. J. Lauder was associated with the founders of the Glasgow Art Club, of which he became a member fifty years ago. His first appearance as an exhibitor was in 1873, when his maiden effort, A Corner of the Manse, Loch Ranza was hung in the Roval Scottish Academy. Afterwards, in London where he remained for fifteen years the busy streets and the activities of the Thames provided him with fruitful inspiration, while in his middle period he found his subjects chiefly in the crowded waterway of the Clyde, and still later he devoted himself to Italian scenes. Since the death of his wife, herself an accomplished artist, he had lived practically in retirement.

Value of estate.

Works
Diana Fountain, Bushy Park