Beatrice McLeod Learmont Huntington [commonly known as Beatrice Huntington and as Beatrice M. L. Huntington; also known as Beatrice M. L. Huntingdon [1]; and as Mrs. W. Macdonald] was born in St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland in 1889. From 1906 she studied painting and drawing in Paris, before moving to Munich where she trained with the Austrian-born painter Heinrich Knirr (1862-1944) in 1911-12. In 1914 she moved to London and began exhibiting. After World War One she returned to St. Andrews and studied in Dundee where she met the painter William Macdonald (1883-1960) whom she married in 1925. Through Macdonald she became acquainted with the Scottish Colourists including F.C.B Cadell and Samuel Peploe. In 1928 the couple moved to Edinburgh and settled in a flat in Hanover Street.
Apart from 1941, when her address was given as Dimocks Rest, Windsor, Novia Scotia, Canada, from 1930 she and Macdonald lived at 116 Hanover Street, Edinburgh. She died in 1988. In 1990 the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh held a joint exhibition of her work and that of William Macdonald.
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[1] Her name is given as Beatrice M. L. Huntingdon in the catalogues of the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Scottish Academy
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
