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Herdman, Robert Duddingstone (1863-1922)
R D Herdman was born in Edinburgh, son of the Scottish Royal Academician Robert Herdman (1829-1888). He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University and studied art at the Royal Scottish Academy Schools and in Paris. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1908. He showed at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, and the Walker Art Gallery. He was elected Chairman of the Society of Scottish Artists in 1898 and showed portraits and genre paintings. Examples of his work are held in the collections of the City of Edinburgh Art Collection, Dundee Art Galleries and Museums, Liverpool University Art Collection, Manx National Heritage, McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Museums Sheffield and South Ayrshire Council.
