Elected ARSA:14 November 1877

Elected RSA: 10 February 1886

David Watson Stevenson was born in Ratho in 1842. He began his artistic career under William Brodie RSA and entered as a student at the Board of Trustees’ School of Design. Whilst there he gained the South Kensington National Prize for a statuette reproduction of the Venus of Milo. At this time, he was also admitted to the Life School of the Royal Scottish Academy. 

 

He first exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1859 and contributed regularly to the Annual Exhibition after this. He began working as his own sculptor in 1868 and went to Rome in 1876 to continue his studies.  

View RSA Obituary from 1904 (PDF, opens in a new tab.)