Mary Cameron (painter)

Mary Margaret Cameron (9 March 1865 – 15 February 1921) was a Scottish artist, renowned for her depictions of everyday Spanish life.

Cameron was the younger sister of Flora Macaulay – widow of the Rev Robert Blair – who was editor of The Oban Times newspaper until her death in 1958, aged 99.

[3] She took classes at the Edinburgh Veterinary College to perfect her understanding of animal anatomy,[3] and developed a particular skill for depicting horses.

She painted many Spanish scenes, violent and masculine topics such as battlefields, horse racing[5] and particularly bullfights,[1] and lived for a time in Madrid and Seville.

[6] Cameron was a founding member of the Edinburgh Ladies Art Club and the first exhibition of the Society of Scottish Artists, she was later involved with the Royal Scottish Academy,[3] (RSA) but in 1901, when women could exhibit at RSA but not become members, her application was nominated with Pheobe Anna Traquair and Christina Paterson Ross, but no women were elected until Josephine Haswell Miller in 1938.

[3] On 30 June 1905 Cameron married Alexis Millar, a horse dealer and jobmaster from Edinburgh, at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London.

Mrs. Blair with her Dogs
The grave of the Cameron family, Dean Cemetery