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Alexander Finlay (10 April 1833 - 2 March 1895) was a Scottish painter.

Life
His father was James Finlay (1805 - 13 May 1849).

His mother was Isabella White (born 8 July 1810). They married on 25 July 1830 in Glasgow.

Alexander Finlay was born on 10 April 1833 in Glasgow.

He married Annie Yuille (20 July 1834 - 27 November 1871) on 26 August 1858 in Glasgow. They had 3 sons and 3 daughters.

In the 1861 census he was a packing box maker and merchant.

In the 1871 census his occupation was a packing box hucker.

He stayed at 14 Napiershall Street, Glasgow in the 1881 census.

He visited the West Indies and North America in 1891.

Art
He exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1877 his work: On The East Coast, Near Tantallon.

In 1878 he was to exhibit A Pull On The Main Sheet and On The Shore At Girvan at the RGI. The same year he exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy his works: Turbot Fishers and A Nook Of The Harbour.

In 1879 he exhibited The Prop Of Her Old Age and Any Port In A Storm at the RGI. He exhibited three works at the RSA that year: Half A Gale, On Loch Fyne and By The Sea.

In 1880 he exhibited his works: Out For An Airing and In Kilbrannan Sound at the RGI.

He exhibited at the RGI in 1881 his works: The Weather Shore, The Skipper, A Sketch At Ballantrae Beach and Gloaming - Carradale.

In 1883 he exhibited Cutter Match - 'Verve' and 'Buttercup', The Herring Trawler's Return and Fishing Boats Off Stornoway at the RGI.

In 1884 he exhibited East Coast Fishing Boats Off Greenock at the RGI.

He exhibited his works: Rafting, a watercolour Discharging Timber - Grangemouth and At The Salmon Nets in 1888 at the RGI.

In 1889 he exhibited Ballantrae Beach at the RGI.

In 1890 he exhibited his works: Torn Nets, The Ribb'd Sea Sand and A Dangerous Landing at the RGI. The Glasgow Herald noted that The Ribb'd Sea Sand 'shows great purity of colour as well as accurate form in the breaking waves and in the reach of the sand itself the flatness is relieved by suggestions of water left by the receding tide.'

At the 1891 RGI exhibition he exhibited 560 S. R., From Labour To Refreshment and Rocks, Ballantrae.

He exhibited two works from his time in the West Indies in 1891, at the 1892 RGI exhibition. These were: Basse Terre, St. Kitts and a watercolour Landing Place, Port Of Spain, Trinidad

He opened an exhibition of his paintings at Annans in Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow in 1892.

In 1893 he exhibited two works called Beach at the RGI.

In 1894 he exhibited his work: The Last Race For The America Cup, 13 October 1893 at the RGI.

Death
He died on 2 March 1895 at Rockburn, Kilcreggan. The Scotsman said that Finlay was 'one of the old school of Clyde marine artists'.

The Glasgow Herald ran an advert from the executor's agents Dick, Stevenson and Muir to lodge any claims against the artist in the next 14 days.

Works
His Newhaven Harbour, Tying Up The Fishing Boats from 1879 is known; and his Ships Off A Coast from 1891 is also known.