Author, lecturer and curator, Frances Fowle, visited us to talk about the remarkable life of Alexander Reid. Not only was Reid a friend of Vincent and Theo Van Gogh -- bizarrely, he looked so like the former that until recently a portait of Reid by Vincent Van Gogh was thought to be a self-portrait! Frances explained how Reid influenced Scottish taste to encompass the French impressionists and set the scene for the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists to be popular artists in their own country. His career almost exactly spanned the years of the Victorian industrial revolution to the depression of the thirties, offering a peak buying time for the mercantile classes of Scotland. If you missed the talk you can find out more about this colossus in the world of art appreciation by reading Van Gogh's Twin for yourself. Search for Van Gogh's Twin in the library catalog: goo.gl