Rory McEwen Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1932 - d. 1982

Roderick McEwen (12 March 1932 – 16 October 1982), known as Rory McEwen, was a Scottish artist and musician.

Roderick McEwen was the fourth of seven children born to Sir John Helias Finnie McEwen and Lady Bridget Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Oswald Lindley and great-granddaughter of botanist and illustrator John Lindley, who in 1840 was instrumental in saving The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from destruction.

McEwen was educated at the family home, Marchmont House, by a French governess named Mademoiselle Philippe, and at Eton where he was taught by Wilfred Blunt who described him as "perhaps the most gifted artist to pass through my hands". After his National Service in The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, he gained a degree in English at Trinity College, Cambridge, where, among others, he became friends with Karl Miller, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Mark Boxer.