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SWAN, JOHN MACALLAN (1847-1910)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 179 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
SWAN, JOHN MACALLAN (1847-1910) ,
English
  painter and sculptor, received his art training first in England at the Worcester and Lambeth schools of art and the Royal
Academy
  schools, and subsequently in Paris, in the studios of J. L. Ger6me and E. Fremiet. He began to exhibit at the
Academy
  in 1878, and was elected associate in 1894 and academician in 1005. He was appointed a member of the Dutch Water-Colour Society in x885; and associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water
Colours
  in 1896 and full member in 1899. A master of the oil, water-colour and pastel mediums, an accomplished
' An enormous amount of labour has been bestowed upon the Hirundinidae by R. B.
Sharpe
  (Cat. B. Brit. Illus. x. 85-21o), and in the finely-illustrated Monograph which he and C. W. Wyatt have published (2 vols. 4to, London, 1885-1894).
painter and a skilful draughtsman, he ranks also as a sculptor on a large scale of electric
lighting
  by means of glow lamps.
of distinguished ability. He has treated the human figure with In another method devised by him for the manufacture of filaments,
collodion
  was squirted into a coagulating solution and
the tough threads thus obtained carbonized by heat. He also devoted attention to apparatus for measuring electric currents, to the improvement of accumulators and to the conditions governing the electro-deposition of metals. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1894, and served as president of the Institution of
Electrical
  Engineers in 18981899 and of the Society of Chemical Industry in 1901. In the last-named year he received the honorary degree of D.Sc. from
Durham
  University, and he was knighted in 1904.


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