Thom's Irish Who's Who/McLachlan, Norman French

McLACHLAN, Norman French, M.B.A.S., Dublin, Artist, Portrait Painter; first studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, and later at the Glasgow School under Maurice Greiftenhagen, A.R.A.; Member of the Belfast Art Society and Glasgow Society of Painters and Sculptors; best known for his characteristic pictures of peasant types, and landscape of Ireland, and as a distinguished portrait painter of Irish personalities, including Cardinal Logue, etc., etc.; identified with the more modern tendencies of Art in Ireland, and author of numerous independent exhibitions of his paintings of Irish subjects in Dublin, and in Glasgow and Edinburgh; Exhibitor at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, West of England Academy, and represented in the Belfast permanent collection.