William Mervyn Glass R.S.A., P.S.S.A. (1885 - 1965)

Mervyn William Glass studied at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and the R.S.A. Schools and in Paris and Italy. In 1913 he moved to Edinburgh before serving in the War. A painter of coastal scenes, seascapes and landscapes, he was particularly fond of painting Iona.

Glass refused to teach and committed his time to painting: ‘The thing that gets me is that 9/10 ths of the painters in Scotland have to beg for their bread and butter. In their spare time and during holidays they squeeze in enough time to do some real painting’.

Glass usually signed his work with his initials 'WMG'.