Alexander Runciman [SEP] date of death
Alexander Runciman
Alexander Runciman (Edinburgh 15 August 1736 – 4 October 1785 Edinburgh) was a Scottish painter of historical and mythological subjects. He was the elder brother of John Runciman, also a painter.
Life.
He was born in Edinburgh, and studied at the Foulis Academy, Glasgow, and from 1750 to 1762 he was apprenticed to the landscape painter Robert Norie, later becoming a partner in the Norie family firm. He also worked as a stage painter for the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh.
In 1767
- Approximate date – Scots Mining Company House built at Leadhills.
Births.
- 19 January – James Watt, inventor (died 1819 in Birmingham)
- 11 May – Alexander Murray, Lord Henderland, judge and politician (died 1795)
- 15 August – Alexander Runciman, painter of historical and mythological subjects (died 1785)
- 27 October – James Macpherson, poet, "translator" of Ossian (died 1796)
- 8 November – Lady Mary Hamilton, née Leslie, novelist (