Robert Hope (1869–1936): A Highland Visionary Robert Hope Moncrieff, born February 26, 1846, in Liverpool, England, was a Scottish artist whose prolific output cemented his place as one of Scotland’s most celebrated landscape painters. His father, George Moncrieff, was a solicitor, and Angela Birch, his first wife, tragically succumbed to tuberculosis just two years later. Despite this early loss, Robert’s life flourished, marked by m…