Biography
John Tattersall (1859-1935) was a Dundee grocer, at one time in partnership with William Low, brother of the Scottish supermarket chain owner, but he also collected art, particularly the Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists. In 1916 Tattersall briefly went into partnership with the Glasgow-based art dealer Alexander Reid (1854-1928) who encouraged him to collect the Post-Impressionists. They also held an exhibition together of the Scottish painter Leslie Hunter (1877-1931) in March 1916 whom Tattersall had most likely met at his first solo show at Reid's West George Street gallery in Glasgow in November 1913. Tattersall also introduced Alex Reid to the Glasgow shipbuilder William McInnes (1889-1939) with whom he had travelled to France just before WW1 and who became Hunter's most important patron. Tattersall has also once owned The Jetty at Trouville (1869) by the French pre-Impressionist Boudin (1824-1898) which was sold to Sir William Burrell (1861-1958) in 1919.