The eldest son of the artist Robert L. Alexander, he was born in Edinburgh. He studied, briefly, at the Royal Institution, Edinburgh, 1887-88, and later under Fremiet in Paris. In 1887, aged only seventeen years old he travelled to Tangier with his father and the artist Joseph Crawhall. He is known as an animal and bird painter, but also produced some landscapes of his native Scotland.   He is rated alongside Joseph Crawhall as one of the finest painter of animals and birds of his