George Paul Chalmers RSA (1833 – 20 February 1878) was a Scottish landscape, marine, interior and portrait painter.

Chalmers was born at Montrose, the son of a captain of a coastal vessel, and at the age of twenty he started to study at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh under Robert Scott Lauder.

[citation needed] The best of these are The End of the Harvest (1873), Running Water (1875), and The Legend (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh).

[1] His life was cut short in 1878 when he was violently mugged just off Charlotte Square in Edinburgh and died as a result of his injuries.

He and his work were celebrated in a sizeable volume written and edited by Edward Pinnington, produced in collaboration with his patron, George B. Simpson.