William Mouat Loudan [also known as William Mouat-Loudan] was born to Scottish parents in London, England in 1868. He studied for nearly four years at the Royal Academy Schools in London where he was awarded medals for drawing, painting, modelling, and a travelling studentship. He then went to Paris where he was a pupil of William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905). Following his return to England he worked as a freelance painter. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London from 1883 to 1925. He also exhibited at the Beaux Arts Gallery, Baillie Gallery, Grosvenor Gallery, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Whitechapel Art Gallery, New English Art Club, New Gallery, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Society of British Artists, and Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London; Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Manchester City Art Gallery; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; and at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
He was elected a member of the New English Art Club (NEA) in 1886; the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) in 1891; and the Art Workers Guild in 1894.
He taught at Westminster School of Art.
His address was given as 25 Park Road, West Dulwich, London in 1883 and 1885; Impasse Hélåen, Paris in 1886; 11 Primrose Hill Studiose, London; and 48 Circus Road, London in 1896 and 1925. He died on 26 December 1925.
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