Douglas Robertson Bisset

Douglas Robertson Bisset (25 May 1908 – 30 August 2000), was a Scottish sculptor, best known for his works in the city of Glasgow and for several notable portrait busts.

Biography Bisset was born in Strichen in Aberdeenshire and served an apprenticeship with an architectural sculptor in Glasgow before studying at the Glasgow School of Art between 1930 and 1933. Bisset won the Newberry Gold Medal and a John Keppie Scholarship, which allowed him to travel to Germany, Austria and Denmark to further his studies. During 1933 he worked as an assistant teacher at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Einar Utzon-Frank. Bisset then spent two years at the British School at Rome before moving to Greece in 1935 where he was attached to the British School of Archaeology in Athens for three years. Many years later, he produced a relief panel, with an unusual take on the idea of the Grim Reaper, which was sited above the mortuary door of the Glasgow Victoria Infirmary. Bisset's 1950 portrait bust of Ernest Bevin is now in the British Government's Art Collection.

From 1980 until 1995, Bisset lived in Mexico but eventually returned to live in Glasgow.