DAVID FORRESTER WILSON RSA (BRITISH 1873-1950) Vanity Signed and dated D Forrester Wilson/1918 lower right; indistinctly signed and dated lower left; inscribed Forrester Wilson School of Art, 167 Renfrew St, Glasgow, and preliminary oil study on the reverse. Oil on canvas 115 x 130cm (43 1/4 x 51 1/4in) Provenance Private collection, acquired in the 1920s thence by descent to the present owner David Forrester Wilson studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1892-93 and again from 1899, when he worked under the influential Belgian Symbolist painter Jean Delville (1867-1953). His senior by just 6 years, Delville taught at the School from 1899-1906. Appointed to the staff in 1903 as studio assistant under Delville’s tenure, Wilson went on to become Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting, and then from 1932-1938 Head of Department. As well as the influence of Delville, who retained a life-long fascination with the Occult and expounded the importance of the aesthetic of the ideal, the work of Wilson's direct contemporaries also proved formative. His peers included ‘The Four’: James Herbert McNair, Frances and Margaret Macdonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh who were instrumental in creating the now distinctive Glasgow Style. Other artists who shaped Wilson’s style included the so-called Glasgow Boys of a generation earlier led by James Guthrie (1859-1930) and John Lavery (1856-1941), and who via the naturalist landscapes of Jules Bastien-Lepage and the exoticism of James McNeil Whistler’s Japonism sowed the seeds of Modernism in and around the city.
DAVID FORRESTER WILSON RSA (BRITISH 1873-1950) Vanity Signed and dated D Forrester Wilson/1918 lower right; indistinctly signed and dated lower left; inscribed Forrester Wilson School of Art, 167 Renfrew St, Glasgow, and preliminary oil study on the reverse. Oil on canvas 115 x 130cm (43 1/4 x 51 1/4in) Provenance Private collection, acquired in the 1920s thence by descent to the present owner David Forrester Wilson studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1892-93 and again from 1899, when he worked under the influential Belgian Symbolist painter Jean Delville (1867-1953). His senior by just 6 years, Delville taught at the School from 1899-1906. Appointed to the staff in 1903 as studio assistant under Delville’s tenure, Wilson went on to become Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting, and then from 1932-1938 Head of Department. As well as the influence of Delville, who retained a life-long fascination with the Occult and expounded the importance of the aesthetic of the ideal, the work of Wilson's direct contemporaries also proved formative. His peers included ‘The Four’: James Herbert McNair, Frances and Margaret Macdonald and Charles Rennie Mackintosh who were instrumental in creating the now distinctive Glasgow Style. Other artists who shaped Wilson’s style included the so-called Glasgow Boys of a generation earlier led by James Guthrie (1859-1930) and John Lavery (1856-1941), and who via the naturalist landscapes of Jules Bastien-Lepage and the exoticism of James McNeil Whistler’s Japonism sowed the seeds of Modernism in and around the city.
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