John Falconer Slater - Artist

John Falconer Slater (1857-1937) was a landscape, coastal, marine, portrait, animal, flower and street scene painter. He worked on both oil and watercolour. He was a book keeper at his fathers corn mill before running a store in the diamond fields of South Africa before returning to Tyneside to become a full time professional artist. Slater exhibited in London, Scotland and other provinces as well as the Laing Art Gallery. He was known to have exhibited at the Walker Gallery - Liverpool (5), Manchester City Art Gallery (1) and at the Royal Academy (22).