William York MacGregor (1855-1923) was a Scottish landscape painter and a leading figure of the Glasgow Boys.
MacGregor was the son of the affluent Glasgow shipbuilder John MacGregor by his second wife, Margaret York.
He studied in Glasgow under Robert Greenlees and James Docharty and at the Slade School under Alphonse Legros. He joined former schoolfriend James Paterson (1854-1932) in 1878, and they co-founded the "Glasgow School" meeting at his studio at 134 Bath Street in central Glasgow.
He exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1875 (Associate R.S.A. 1898; R.S.A. 1921) and twice at the Royal Academy, was a member of the R.S.W.S. 1885-1906 and the New English Art Club in 1892. Macgregor travelled widely on the Continent, 1886-90. A member of Glasgow Art Club, work by Macgregor was included in the club's Memorial Exhibition in April 1935, in memory of those of its members who had died since the First World War.
He was married to Jessie Watson (died 1941).
He lived his final years at Albyn Lodge in Bridge of Allan. Macgregor died in Oban on 28 September 1923 and is buried in Old Logie Kirkyard east of Bridge of Allan. The graveyard lies a few hundred metres north of the modern Logie Cemetery.
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