Walter Duncan (painter)

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Walter Duncan ARWS (3 December 1847 – 1932) was a British painter and maker of watercolors. He was born in London to the Royal Academy artist Edward Duncan and Berthia, the daughter of marine painter William John Huggins. His brother Allan Duncan was also an artist. Duncan studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and then at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1874 he became an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society (ARWS), and his paintings from then on often bear the ARWS initials. He mainly painted watercolors and showed about 224 works with the Royal Watercolour Society; he also painted oils, but those are rare. In 1871 he married Harriet Charlotte Condy, who died in 1880; in 1883 he married Elizabeth Sophia Anne Haase Child Gascoyne, which led to a two-year stay in India. Between 1869 and 1893 he exhibited at major venues such as the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Grosvenor Gallery, the New Gallery, and the Royal Watercolour Society, and from the 1870s he was a key artist for The Illustrated London News. He died in Richmond, London, in 1932.