Born in Glasgow, Hugh Munro worked for the artist Charles Hodge Mackie cutting woodblocks, and later became a successful landscape and figure painter. He exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute, where he was an elected member and, for a time, he was the art critic of the Glasgow Herald. His work is sometimes associated with the Glasgow Boys and their circle – indeed, when Munro died his widow married the Galloway painter W S MacGeorge.
