Geddes, ANDREW

Geddes, ANDREW, a painter, was born at Edinburgh in 1783. He began to study at the Royal Academy in London in 1806, and first exhibited in Edinburgh, producing successful pictures in 1808 and in 1810, in the latter year the 'Draught-players.' This, along with 'The Discovery of the Scottish Regalia,' exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, in 1821, and 'Christ and the Woman of Samaria,' are esteemed his best pictures, though he also excelled in portrait-painting. He ranks higher as an etcher. In 1831 he was elected A.R.A., and died in 1844.