Sir George Chalmers (c.1720-1791)

• Was a Scottis painter.
• Born in Edinburgh.
• George studied painting under his father and Alan Ramsay.
• In 1751 he went to Rome, where he mixed with the expatriate Jacobites, and he went on from there to Florence and Minorca.
• About 1760 George returned to Edinburgh, where he assumed the baronetcy in 1764.
• Sir George Chalmers became the 4th holder of the title in 1764, on the death of a relative of the same name.
• In 1778 he moved from Edinburgh to Hull, and in 1784, to London where he died in 1791.
• He exhibited 24 works at the Royal Academy between 1775 and 1790.
• Sir George’s best known painting is The Captain of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers William St Clair of Roslin (1771), which now hangs in the hall of the Royal Company of Archers in Edinburgh.

• Cosmo Alexander was brother-in-law of Sir George Chalmers. 

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