User:Aedis1/Art89

James Campbell (c. 1827 - 16 January 1903) was a Scottish painter. He became an art teacher in the High School of Glasgow. He is known as a Glasgow landscape painter.

Life
James Campbell was born c. 1827 in Greenock, a son of James Campbell [Snr], a merchant and then a ship chandler, and Janet Weir. Janet Campbell (nee Weir) later remarried and became Janet Sillars.

He married Jane Steel (born c. 1837) from Ayrshire, a daughter of Thomas Steel and Margaret Galloway. They married in 14 December 1855 in Glasgow. They both stayed at 42 Cambridge Street at the time, and James was a pattern designer.

They stayed first at 14 Falkland Place then at 34 Falkland Place off St George's Road, Glasgow; and James was in the postal directories of the time as a teacher and art and drawing.

He is still a pattern designer in the 1861 census. They had a daughter Margaret (born c. 1863) and a son James (born c. 1865).

His occupation was an artist on the 1871 census. They had a son Thomas Steel Campbell, born 24 July 1872 in Glasgow.

In the 1881 census, Campbell's occupation is a teacher of art. He is a teacher at the High School of Glasgow. He is a certified art master in the 1891 census.

He moves to 85 Gibson Street in the 1901 census, described as an art master.

Art
Campbell was known as a Glasgow landscape artist. He worked in Cadzow Forest in Lanarkshire and also made pen and sepia drawings of Glasgow.

In 1873 he exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy his work: Entrance to Cadzow Forest.

Death
He died on 16 January 1903 of peritonitis and bronchial pneumonia, as certified on the death certificate. He was staying at his home at 85 Gibson Street.

The Glasgow Herald of 17 January 1903 had this obituary: We regret to record the death of Mr. James Campbell, a former teacher in the High School of Glasgow which took place yesterday morning at his residence in Gibson Street, Hillhead, after a brief illness. Mr. Campbell who was in his 76th year, was a native of Greenock, and in early life was employed as designer for a number of years in the Vale of Leven, and more lately in the works of Messers. Higginbotham. In 1873 he was appointed drawing master in the High School, in succession to Mr. J. A. Hutchinson, one of the most famous teachers of drawing in his day. Mr. Campbell carried on the traditions of his predecessor, throwing a considerable amount of enthusiasm into all his work, evoking on the part of his pupils a genuine interest in art. He also taught drawing for a number of years in the Athenaeum prior to the reorganisation of the institution. A man of gentle, retiring and kindly disposition Mr. Campbell was held in the highest esteem by all who had the privilege of his acquaintance and on his retirement from the High School at the end of last session he was presented by his colleagues with a handsome silver bowl as a token of their respect. He is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.