From a Scots-Spanish perspective - seven paintings by Miguel Mackinlay

Tête-à-tête, 1930.

Poppies, circa 1953-57.

Summer, 1933.

Still-Life with Pipe, date unknown.

Still-Life with Apples, circa 1922.

The Bath, 1927. The artist with his wife and daughter and son, Laurie and Michael.

Still-Life with Eggs, circa 1923.

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Miguel Mackinlay (1894 - January 1959), Scottish/Spanish artist, resident in Australia and Great Britain. Born in Guadalajara, Spain, his father was a Scottish engineer, and his mother a local woman. He had some early training in Valencia, but in 1906, after his mother's death, the family moved to Perth, Australia. Known locally as Mike, at the age of seventeen he began an apprenticeship with a sign making and decorating firm, while also studying at Perth Technical School in the evenings. In 1914 he and two other art students put on an exhibition of their work in Perth and raised enough money to move to London, with the intention of furthering their careers. He served in the army and was wounded several times during World War I. Toward the end of the war he married Laurie Carruthers with whom he'd been living for more than a year and with whom he'd had a child; they would have two more children. Post-war, he was increasingly successful in his career, and thereafter made a good living, showing regularly as well as doing book illustration, poster design, and work for advertising.