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James McBey
1883–1959
Painter and etcher, born at Foveran, Aberdeenshire, who began work in a bank. He attended evening classes at Gray’s Art School, Aberdeen, taught himself etching, built his own press and by 1906–7 was showing at RSA and Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
Text Source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)