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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The Mystery of an old photograph from Ohrid
While searching for “Macedonian art” I run in June 2015 to a Romanian antique photos dealer, Mrs. Margarit Sorin from Bucharest Romania. From her vast