Dugald Sutherland MacColl

Dugald Sutherland MacColl (10 March 1859 – 21 December 1948) was a Scottish watercolour painter, art critic, lecturer and writer.

He published the authoritative book, Nineteenth Century Art, in 1902 [1] and his biography Philip Wilson Steer was awarded the 1945 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

In his journalism and books he was a major advocate of the French Impressionists, and was influential in spreading their ideas and shaping public attitudes in Britain towards favouring Impressionism.

Other causes included his opposition, as a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission,[1][2] to the 1925 proposal to build a sacristy under the north wall of Westminster Abbey.

He was also a central figure in discussions of "Gothic" additions to Oxford colleges, and in efforts to preserve the Foundling Hospital.