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Robert Bryden - Coylton artist

4 May

Coylton was the birthplace of one of Scotland's most celebrated artists, Robert Bryden.

Bryden was born here in 1865 but he left to study in London, at the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Academy. After graduation he travelled, visiting Italy and Spain, always sketching as he went. Eventually he returned to settle in Ayrshire and produced a vast body of work.

Bryden was highly regarded as a modeller of bronze busts, but he also carved in wood, created a large number of etchings and worked in many media. His bronze portraits of Robert Burns and William Wallace are perhaps most famous, but much of his work was concerned with local scenes and people, and builds into a valuable social historical resource for the area.

He died in 1939.

You can see some of Robert Bryden's work here

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