Alexander Johnston

Born: 1882

Death: 1974

Biography:

Alexander Johnston (1815 – 1891) was a Scottish painter, known for genre and history paintings. Born at Edinburgh, he was son of an architect, who placed him at the age of fifteen with a seal-engraver there. He was a student in the Trustees' Academy from 1831 to 1834, when he went to London with an introduction to Sir David Wilkie. He entered the s...