Our First Tiff

Robert Walker Macbeth was a Scottish painter, etcher, and watercolorist, specializing in pastoral landscape and the rustic genre.  His father, Norman Macbeth, was a portrait painter. Two of his five brothers, James Macbeth and Henry Macbeth (later Macbeth-Raeburn), were also artists.

Macbeth’s early paintings were typically rustic and pastoral in character, but Our First Tiff marks a shift toward a more refined, upper-middle-class subject matter. In this scene, a couple shares breakfast beneath a tree on a serene summer morning, bathed in warm light. Yet, as the title suggests, harmony has been broken—the woman reaches out to speak, while her companion pointedly turns away, absorbed in his newspaper.

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