James McBey
Scottish painter and printmaker, 1883–1959
He enlisted in the British Army at the start of the First World War and after making a number of drawings on the Western Front in 1916, he was appointed an official war artist to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. Throughout 1917 and 1918 McBey accompanied the Allied advance in Palestine, from Gaza to Damascus. He worked in watercolour and oil. He made several visits thereafter to the Middle East and North Africa. McBey also received commissions to paint a number of formal portraits.
There is an almost complete collection of his etchings at the Boston Public Library.
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British painter, printmaker, and author, 1883–1948
Scottish painter, draftsman, and etcher, 1892–1963
Scottish painter and printmaker, 1859–1921
English architectural critic and author, 1819–1900
English draftsman, printmaker, and architect, 1874–1943
French painter, draftsman, and printmaker, 1884–1974
French printmaker, 1821–1868, of English parentage
American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951
