Elmslie William Dallas

Elmslie William Dallas FRSE (27 June 1809 – 26 January 1879) was a Scottish artist, teacher and photographer.

[1] He was the second son of William Dallas (4 August 1773 - 14 February 1842) from Cantray, Inverness-shire, who worked at the insurers Lloyd's of London; and Sarah Day (1782 - 1862) from Dudley in England.

[2] He was admitted a student of the Royal Academy in 1831, leaving in 1834 with a gold medal and a travelling studentship.

Dallas's first picture, the interior of a Roman convent, hung in the Royal Academy in 1838.

In 1840 he assisted Ludwig Grüner in the decoration of the garden pavilion at Buckingham Palace, painting a series of views of Melrose, Abbotsford, Loch Awe, Aros Castle, and Windermere Lake, in illustration of the writings of Walter Scott.