Howard Somerville

This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV.  

HOWARD SOMERVILLE ADAMSON (September 11, 1873 – July 2, 1952)
(A.K.A. “Howard Somerville”)

Portrait and landscape painter, illustrator, etcher.   Born in Dundee, Scotland, to Jessie Leith (b. 1844) and James Adamson (b. 1842).  His father was a prominent coal merchant in Dundee and the family resided in a home known as “Mount Pleasant House.”  Howard Adamson was one of three brothers in a much larger family that all became prominent artists and illustrators.  

The eldest, Sydney Blair Adamson (1872 – 1958), who was best known for hi   ...  Displaying 750 of 23182 characters.