Painter and illustrator of sporting and military scenes, born in Waterside, Lanarkshire. He studied at St Andrews University, Edinburgh School of Art and Royal Scottish Academy Schools through much of the 1880s. Armour illustrated for magazines such as Punch, The Tatler and The Graphic and showed at RA, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and RSA. He illustrated many books, including his own Pastime with Good Company, 1914, A Hunting Alphabet, 1929, and Bridle and Brush, 1937. Armour’s life was horses and hunting, and he hunted with the Beaufort, Sparkford Vale Harriers and the South Berks. In World War I he joined the Remount Service and ended as director of the Salonica Force. Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, holds his work. Lived for many years in Wiltshire.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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