William Allan Coats
Date of birth: 1853
Date of death: 31 August 1926
Category: collector
Identity:
William Allan Coats was the fourth son of Thomas Coats of Ferguslic and a director of J. & P. Coats, a thread manufacturing company based in Pasiley, Scotland.
Life:
Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures of the French, Dutch, British and other schools belonging to W.A. Coats, and written by himsef, was published by the art dealer W. B. Paterson, Glasgow, 1904.
He owned Sketch for 'Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Valparaiso Bay' y074. After his death his collection was sold by W. B. Paterson.
Bibliography:
Fowle, F., 'Souvenirs and Fêtes Champêtres: William Allan Coats’s Collection of Nineteenth-CenturyFrench Paintings', Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, 2009, vol 14, pp. 63-70. Hamilton, Vivien, Millet to Matisse: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century French Painting from from Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, Yale University Press, 2002.
