Animal painter and cartoonist, born at Waterside, Lanarkshire 1864, died in Wiltshire in 1949. Studied at the St. Andrew University and at the School of Art in Edinburgh and at the RSA School. Student of Robert Alexander (1840-1923). In 1910 he studied military equestrian procedures at the Spanish riding school in Vienna.
Armour visited Macedonia during the Great War from 1917-1919 where he commanded the army’s remount depot in Thessaloniki. In this period, he made a series of drawings and watercolors of Aegean Macedonia landscapes and cityscapes, military and trench scenes and illustrations for British newspapers. A pastel drawing with a Salonika trench scene with a horse is in the private collection of the author and newspaper illustration for The Punch from 1917.
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A Secret code in Macedonian embroidery?
The geometry, colors, and aesthetics of traditional Macedonian embroidery has mesmerized all war painters that traveled through Macedonia or fought with their armies on Macedonian