William Strang RA (13 Feb. 1859 – 12 April 1921); Scottish painter and engraver. Born at Dumbarton... [went] to London in 1875 when he was 16. There hestudied art under Alphonse Legros at the Slade School for 6 years. Became assistant master in the etching class, and had great success as an etcher. An original members of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers; his work was a part of their first exhibition in 1881.... Thomas Hardy, Sir Henry Newbolt and other distinguished men also sat for him. Proofs from these plates have been much valued; in fact, Strang's portrait etchings began a new form of reproductive portraiture. ... Worked in etching, dry point, mezzotint, sand-ground mezzotint, and burin engraving... lithography and wood-cutting... A privately produced catalogue of his engraved work contained more than 300 items.... Produced a number of paintings, portraits, nude figures in landscapes, and groups of peasant families, which were exhibited at the Royal Academy, The International Society, and several German exhibitions.... Some of his nude model drawings in silver point and red and black chalk are very beautiful as well as powerful and true. Painted landscapes, mostly small in size. In later years he developed a style of drawing in red and black chalk, with the whites and high lights rubbed out, on paper stained with water color. His method gives qualities of delicate modelling and refined form and gradations akin to the drawings of Hans Holbein the Younger. ...also ventured into literature, creating Death and the Ploughman's Wife, an illustrated ballad in 1888... ...His sons Ian Strang and David Strang were both artists. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Strang) The realism and psychological intensity of his etched portraits reflect the particular influence of Legros, and was carried through into the paintings Strang began to produce around ... (http://www.stephenongpin.com/STRANG-William-DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=45&tabindex=44&artistid=180226) undefined

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