Walter Duncan (painter)

Walter Duncan (1847-1932) ARWS was a British painter and watercolorist.

Walter Duncan was born in London in 1847 to the Royal Academy artist Edward Duncan RWS and his wife Berthia, the daughter of British marine painter William John Huggins.

In 1874 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society[1] and his paintings from then on bear the initials A.R.W.S.

In 1883, after her death, he married Elizabeth Sophia Anne Haase Child Gascoyne, the daughter of an officer stationed in the North-Western Provinces.

WRIGIT Christopher, GORDON Catherine Mary, SMITH Mary Peskett (2006), “Walter Duncan”, in IDEM British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections, New Haven 2006, Yale University Press, p. 310.