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(1) Robert Scott Lauder
(b Edinburgh, 25 June 1803; d Edinburgh, 21 April 1869). In his youth he showed great promise as a painter. He studied (1822–3) at the Trustees’ Academy, Edinburgh, under Andrew Wilson, who inculcated his students with a love of Italy and the Mediterranean region. From 1823 to 1826 Lauder was in London, where he sketched regularly at the British Museum and took life drawing classes at a private school. He returned to Edinburgh in 1826, the year the Royal Scottish Academy was established, and was elected ARSA. He exhibited portraits in the annual shows of the Academy and was made a full member in 1829. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, between 1827 and 1861. He taught for a period at the Trustees’ Academy, where William Allan undoubtedly influenced him in his choice of historical themes as subject-matter. He painted subjects drawn from the novels of his friend and champion Walter Scott, as well as from historical literature, and he showed these at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1831 and 1833. He also met John Thomson at this time, an artist whose painterly approach to landscape confirmed his own preference for romantic, expressive effects and fluid brushwork. He married Thomson’s daughter and from 1833 to 1838 the couple lived in Rome, where Lauder studied the Italian masters and earned an income painting portraits (e.g. William Leighton Leitch, c. 1834–5; Edinburgh, Royal Scot. Acad.). While abroad, he travelled widely, visiting Florence, Venice, Bologna and Munich.
Part of the Lauder family
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