George Denholm Armour

George Denholm Armour was born in Waterside, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 30 January 1864.[2][3] He grew up in Liverpool and went to school in Fife.[2] He graduated from the University of St Andrews and the Edinburgh College of Art.[2][3]

He moved to Tangiers, Morocco, to paint and buy horses.[2][3] When his money ran out, he moved to London and shared a studio with Phil May.[2][3] He met Joseph Crawhall III on a hunting and painting holiday, and they both ran a stud farmhouse in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England.[2][3] In 1898, he got married, and Crawhall was his best man at the wedding.[2] He did illustrations for The Graphic, Punch and Country Life.[2][3]

In 1910, he studied military equestrianism at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria.[2] In 1913, he became an honorary member of the Meadowbrook Polo Club.[5] During the First World War, he commanded the remount depot in Salonika from 1917 to 1919.[2] When his wife died in 1924, he remarried to Miss Violet Burton.[2] They lived in Malmesbury.[2] He became a member of the Royal Scottish Academy.[4] He died in Wiltshire on 17 February 1949.[2]

Some of his paintings are owned by the City of Glasgow, the National Trust, the Aberdeen Art Gallery, the National Galleries of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh.[1] His painting, A Polo Match, was sold at Christie's in 1988.[5]

• Two Huntsmen on Horseback, One Blowing a Horn
• Miss Esme Jenner (1896/1897-1932), as Master of the Sparford Vale Harriers
• The Sound of the Horn, Twilight and Dimsey
• Mater pulchra, filia pulchrior: Twilight and Dimsey
• On the Staircase
• George Denholm Armour (1864-1949), Artist, Self-Portrait
• Upper Half of Male Nude
• Study of Reclining Female Nude and Bearded Male
• D. Milburn (U.S. back)
• A Nearside Shot by Leslie Cheape
• Larry Waterbury Scoring
• Capt. Ritson Making a Run
• Saving a Goal
• Mounted Polo Player
• A Polo Match
• A Faithful Hunter
• Portrait of a Hunter

• Armour's Punch Illustrations in HeidICON