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MACNEE, SIR DANIEL (1806–1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 265 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MACNEE, See also:SIR See also:DANIEL (1806–1882) , Scottish portrait painter, was See also:born at Fintry in See also:Stirlingshire. At the See also:age of thirteen he was apprenticed, along with Horatio See also:Macculloch and Leitch the See also:water-See also:colour painter, to See also:John See also:Knox, a landscapist of some repute. He afterwards worked for a See also:year as a lithographer, was employed by the Smiths of Cumnock to paint the ornamental lids of their planewood See also:snuff-boxes, and, having studied in See also:Edinburgh at the " Trustees' See also:Academy," supporting himself meanwhile by designing and colouring See also:book illustrations for Lizars the engraver, he established himself as an artist in See also:Glasgow, where he became a fashionable portrait painter. He was in 1829 admitted a member of the Royal Scottish Academy; and on the See also:death of Sir See also:George See also:Harvey in 1876 he was elected See also:president, and received the See also:honour of See also:knighthood. From this See also:period till his death, on the 18th of See also:January 1882, he resided in Edinburgh, where his genial social qualities and his inimitable See also:powers as a See also:teller of humorous Scottish See also:anecdote rendered him popular.

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