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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Glasgow School
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Group of architects and designers who trained at the Glasgow School of Art in the late 1880s. They evolved an elegantly attenuated version of *Art Nouveau which had great influence abroad. One of the group, the metal-worker Margaret Macdonald, married in 1900 the most talented among them, Charles Rennie *Mackintosh.
The term is also applied to a slightly earlier group of painters working in the city, though they preferred to call themselves the Glasgow Boys (or simply the Boys). They were the first to break away from the academic tradition in Scottish painting, often working in the open air; some used a bright palette, though *Whistler was also an important influence.
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Among many others the rather loose group included James Guthrie (1859–1930), John Lavery (1856–1941), Arthur Melville (1855–1904) and George Henry (1858–1943), whose Galloway Landscape (1889, Glasgow Art Gallery) is considered the masterpiece of the movement. The Boys were an important influence on the *Scottish Colourists.
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