Flora Macdonald Reid

Flora Macdonald Reid or Flora M. Reid (1860 – 1938) was a British, Scottish painter and the sister of the artists John Robertson Reid and Elizabeth Reid.

Life Reid was born in London in 1860, to Scottish parents, and the family later moved to Edinburgh. She studied at the Trustees School of Art, and was also tutored by her brother John. In 1881 she and her siblings returned to London, where they lived in the Haverstock Hill area of the city. Later in her life she spent a decade in Cornwall, living in Looe and Polperro.

Work

At the age of sixteen Reid exhibited work at the Royal Scottish Academy, at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts from the age of 19, and at the Royal Academy from 20. Her painting Faith (later named A Bruges Market Place) was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.

Reid's painting Fieldworkers, 1883 (Fleming-Wyfold Foundation) was included in the Modern Scottish Women: Painters and Sculptors 1885-1965 exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2016.

International reputation Reid travelled and lived in Norway, France and Belgium, and was in 1900 awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris.

Between 1895 and 1932 Reid exhibited six times at the Parisian Salon de Société des Artistes Français, frequently at the Royal Scottish Academy between 1877 and 1922, and in almost every year between 1880 and 1938 at the Royal Glasgow Institute of theFine Arts. Market Scene, Bruges, National Galleries of Scotland A Cornish Fishwife, Manchester Art Gallery