Denis Galloway

William Albert Denis Galloway (5 March 1878 – 7 May 1957) was a Scottish ethnographic artist and photographer.

The elder son of Sir William Galloway (1840–1927), Mining Professor at University College of Wales in Cardiff, and Christiana Maud Mary Gordon (1853–1880).

Galloway was a renowned ethnographic artist and photographer who travelled extensively in Europe, whilst living firstly in Zeeland and later in Romania, recording the customs and costumes of the local people, from about 1914 until he returned to England in 1950.

He spent the next ten years painting, etching, sketching and photographing the village, the dike, the people and their traditional way of life.

Following the destruction of the area in the bombing of October 1944, Galloway's work became an invaluable record of life in the pre-war era, and, as such, has been kept by the Polderhuis (Dyke and Polder War Museum of Westkapelle).

[7] Exhibitions of his artwork and photography are still being displayed, for example in Erdelyt Museum in July 2008[8] and at Polderhuis, Westkapelle from 2008 to mid 2009.