Glasgow Docks in Winter, c.1929

Robert Eadie was born in Glasgow in 1877 and studied at the Glasgow School of Art, as well as Munich and Paris. An elegant portraitists, book illustrator and rural and town landscape in oils and water-colours.  He was also an engraver, and artist in black and white. His soon garnered attention and he was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and before 1914 also at the Paris Salon. Eadie also exhibited at the Royal Academy, London and the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. He was also a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, where he also frequently exhibited. He was prominent in civic life and was elected president of Glasgow Art Club. As an illustrator of books he illustrated “The Face of Glasgow”, published in 1938 and and “The Face of Edinburgh”, published in 1938. More recently his paintings also preface “The University of Glasgow Library: Friendly Shelves”, 2016.