Fcb caddell biography of rory

Cadell Artist Biography

Francis Cadell was born in Edinburgh on 12 April 1883 at 4 Buckingham Terrace. He was the first born of Francis Cadell, a surgeon, and his wife Mary Hamilton Boileau.

Cadell’s youthful aspiration to attend art school was encouraged by his liberal parents. After leaving the Edinburgh Academy at the age of sixteen, he moved with his mother and sister to Paris in 1899.

Fcb caddell biography of rory

In Paris he enrolled at the Académie Julian, a private studio school popular with expatriate students, at which Peploe had previously studied. Cadell returned to Edinburgh in 1902, where he exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy and Society of Scottish Artists for the first time.

In 1906 he and his family moved briefly to Munich, where he attended the Akademie der bildenden Künste, arriving back in Edinburgh in 1908.

In 1909 Cadell mounted his first solo show at Aitken and Dott (later, The Scottish Gallery) in Edinburgh, which was largely unsuccessful. Cadell, however, benefitted from having