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Louis Reid Deuchars was born in Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland on 12 April 1870. Whilst working as a stained glass designer (possibly for J. Guthrie & W. Wells), he attended Glasgow School of Art in 1887-88. In c.1895 Deuchars sent "Picturesque Glasgow", a set of 40 lithographs he had drawn of his native city to the artist George Frederic Watts (1817-1904). Watts subsequently invited him to work as his assistant in Compton, Surrey. In addition to assisting Watts on some of his late sculptures, he worked with Watt's wife, Mary Fraser Tytler (Mary Watts) on the decoration of the Watts Mortuary Chapel in Compton from 1895 to 1900 and assisted her in running classes for the local villagers, who modelled the decorative terra cotta tiles for the chapel.

Text source: Arts + Architecture Profiles from Art History Research net (AHRnet) https://www.arthistoryresearch.net/


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