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Madge Young Mitchell (1892–1974) was a Scottish painter born in Uddingston, near Glasgow. She studied at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, then in Paris for a short time,[1] under Henri L’hote.[2] She taught portrait painting at Gray’s from 1917–1953, before branching out on a career as a self-employed portrait painter.[3]
Madge specialised in portraits, seascapes, and harbour and beach scenes, in oil and watercolour.[1] She exhibited widely, including at the Aberdeen Artists’ Society, of which she was a member, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. Examples of her work are held in the collections of Robert Gordon University Art & Heritage Collections and the University of Aberdeen.[3]
