page_title: George Reid (Scottish artist)
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: George Reid (Scottish artist) / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), Author and reformer, Oil on canvas, 34.30 x 24.80 cm
context_page_description: Sir George Reid PPRSA was a Scottish artist.
context_section_description: Reid was born in Aberdeen in 1841. He developed an early passion for drawing, which led to his being apprenticed in 1854 for seven years to Messrs Keith & Gibb, lithographers in Aberdeen. In 1861 Reid took lessons from an itinerant portrait-painter, William Niddrie, who had been a pupil of James Giles, R.S.A., and afterwards entered as a student in the school of the Board of Trustees in Edinburgh.
caption: Samuel Smiles (1891) by George Reid
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