Andrew Somerville

Andrew Somerville RSA (1808– 14 January 1834) was a short-lived Scottish artist.

He was born in 1808 the son of Andrew Somerville, a wireworker on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.

He exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1830 and was elected an Associate in 1831 and a Fellow in 1833.

[1] At the end of his life ‘’Andrew Somerville, portrait painter, Royal Academy’’ was listed as living at 4 James Square at the east end of Edinburgh's New Town.

[2] The property was demolished to build the St James Shopping Centre.