Andrew Brown Donaldson

He was born in 1840, although some sources say 1838, and was the second son of a solicitor named William Leverton Donaldson and his wife, Margaret Tennent.

Andrew Brown Donaldson studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and he also underwent a period of training in Rome.

[1] Andrew's oil and watercolour paintings, the style of which was heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite movement, primarily depict either actual landscapes or imagined scenes from history and mythology.

Although based in London, living first in Kensington and latterly in Hampstead, Andrew Brown Donaldson frequently toured through mainland Europe in search of new scenes and inspiration, often accompanied by his wife and children.

[2] The Donaldsons retired to the New Forest in Hampshire in later life, settling in the village of Lyndhurst where they lived in a house called Woodhay.

Street Scene by Andrew Brown Donaldson, in the late nineteenth century of a street scene somewhere in the Low Countries , presumably in the Netherlands