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Sir Daniel Macnee FRSE PRSA LLD (4 June 1806, Fintry, Stirlingshire – 17 January 1882, Edinburgh), was a Scottish portrait painter who served as president of the Royal Scottish Academy (1876).
Cameron’s job was to plan and manage the company’s mine workings, something the Bairds had no experience in. By the time the painting below was made in the 1850s by the famous portrait artist Daniel Macnee he was a trusted key member of the William Baird & Company management team.
Mr. Macnee’s connection with the firm of Joseph Armstrong and Company lasted until 1877, when he set up in practice on his own account as a Civil Engineer and contractor, at first in Rotherham and subsequently in Westminster.
Sir Daniel Macnee was a leading Scottish portrait painter. Born at Fintry, he was brought up in Glasgow where he became a pupil of portraitist and landscapist John Knox. There, he met fellow artists Horatio McCulloch and William Leitch.
William Cameron by Daniel Macnee, around 1850. William Baird and Company were the most powerful ironmasters in Scotland. In the mid-1800s their Gartsherrie Iron Works was the biggest the world by output. These furnaces burned night and day and needed large quantities of raw materials, chiefly iron ore and coal.
MacNee was born on the 4th June 1806 in Fintry, Stirlingshire, and died in Edinburgh on the 17th January 1882. When he turned thirteen he was apprenticed to the landscape artist John Knox, and afterwards worked for a year as a lithographer. He was later employed by a company in Cumnock, Ayrshire, to paint the ornamental lids of snuff-boxes.
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He was a Member of the Dilettante Society, and of the West of Scotland Academy; of this latter body—not now. existing—he became President on the death of J. Graham Gilbert in 1866, and on the death of Sir George Harvey in 1876, he was unanimously elected President of the Royal Scottish Academy.
