Sir Daniel McNee

Sir Daniel McNee (1806-1882) was a Scottish painter who mostly did portraits. He was said to have "inimitable powers as a teller of humorous Scottish anecdotes."

 John Ramsay McCulloch

[he was an economist]

  

 Professor Allen Thomson (1878)

 [he was a physician, known as an anatomist and embryologist]

  

 A Lady in Grey (1859)

  

Portrait of a Young Boy

[a young boy...?]

William Ewart Lockhart

William Ewart Lockhart (1846-1900) was a Scottish painter.

 Alnaschar's Fortune, Arabian Nights (1879)

  

 Cardinal of Rheims (1876)

  

 Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Service, Westminster Abbey, 21 June 1887

  

 Spanish Village

  

The White Cockade (1899)

John Robertson Reid

John Robertson Reid (1851-1926) was a Scottish painter who worked mainly in Surrey and Cornwall. His sisters were also painters.

 A Country Cricket Match (1878)

  

 A Friend in Need

  

 Gypsies at the Bell Inn

  

 Springtime (1898)

  

The Pleasures of Childhood

William Marshall Brown

Born in Edinburgh, William Marshall Brown (1863-1936) studied at the city's Royal Institute. He also spent time in London and painted in the Netherlands and France, but became recognized for his figurative work in Scottish landscape settings. Although he ranged across Scotland, he, like the 'Glasgow Boys,' found Cockburnspath a useful base and kept a studio there from which he executed some of his best work. [John Gray Centre]

 At the Water's Edge

  

 Hoeing the Fields (Pitting Potatoes) (ca. 1911)

  

 Collecting Shells

  

Fishing Girls (ca. 1900)

studied at the city’s Royal Institute and the RSA’s Life School. He also spent time in London and painted in the Netherlands and France but became recognised for his figurative work in Scottish landscape settings. Although he ranged widely across Scotland he, like the ‘Glasgow Boys’, found Cockburnspath a useful base and kept a studio there from which he executed some of his best work. Many of his works are large, exhibiting broad and rapid brushwork and a bright palette. A favourite composition might be executed several times with slight variations. - See more at: http://www.johngraycentre.org/people/artists/william-marshall-brown-rsa-1863-1936/#sthash.Xet0xYtm.dpuf

studied at the city’s Royal Institute and the RSA’s Life School. He also spent time in London and painted in the Netherlands and France but became recognised for his figurative work in Scottish landscape settings. Although he ranged widely across Scotland he, like the ‘Glasgow Boys’, found Cockburnspath a useful base and kept a studio there from which he executed some of his best work. Many of his works are large, exhibiting broad and rapid brushwork and a bright palette. A favourite composition might be executed several times with slight variations. - See more at: http://www.johngraycentre.org/people/artists/william-marshall-brown-rsa-1863-1936/#sthash.Xet0xYtm.dpuf

studied at the city’s Royal Institute and the RSA’s Life School. He also spent time in London and painted in the Netherlands and France but became recognised for his figurative work in Scottish landscape settings. Although he ranged widely across Scotland he, like the ‘Glasgow Boys’, found Cockburnspath a useful base and kept a studio there from which he executed some of his best work. Many of his works are large, exhibiting broad and rapid brushwork and a bright palette. A favourite composition might be executed several times with slight variations. - See more at: http://www.johngraycentre.org/people/artists/william-marshall-brown-rsa-1863-1936/#sthash.Xet0xYtm.dpuf

studied at the city’s Royal Institute and the RSA’s Life School. He also spent time in London and painted in the Netherlands and France but became recognised for his figurative work in Scottish landscape settings. Although he ranged widely across Scotland he, like the ‘Glasgow Boys’, found Cockburnspath a useful base and kept a studio there from which he executed some of his best work. Many of his works are large, exhibiting broad and rapid brushwork and a bright palette. A favourite composition might be executed several times with slight variations. - See more at: http://www.johngraycentre.org/people/artists/william-marshall-brown-rsa-1863-1936/#sthash.Xet0xYtm.dpuf

William Leighton Leitch

William Leighton Leitch (1804-1883) was a master Scottish landscape watercolor painter and illustrator. He was Drawing Master to Queen Victoria for 22 years. He was Vice President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, on Pall Mall in London, for twenty years.

 Figures before Roslin Chapel, near Edinburgh (1875)

  

 Harbour Scene at Salerno, Italy (1872)

  

 Hayward's Heath

  

 Mediterranean Coastal Scene

  

 Aberystwith

James Paterson

 Castlefern (1880-85)

  

 The Last Turning, Winter, Moniaive (1885)

  

 A Village in East Linton, Haddington

  

Thornhill (1893)

George W. Simson

George W. Simson (1791-1862) was a Scottish painter of portraits and genre scenes.

 A Coronach in the Backwoods 1859)

[a coronach is a funeral song]

  

 The Girl at the Well (Peasant Girl) (ca. 1831)

  

The Village Ford

Sir David Wilkie

Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841) was a prominent Scottish painter. He was one of the artists featured in this blog's very first post.

 Chelsea Pensioners Receiving the Gazette Announcing the Battle of Waterloo (ca. 1819)

  

 Distraining for Rent 1815)

["distrain" means "to seize someone's property to obtain payment
of rent or other money owed" (I had to look it up!)]

   

 His Highness Muhemed Ali, Pacha of Egypt (1841)

  

 Josephine and the Fortune Teller (1837)

[a depiction of the famous episode where Josephine is told of her destiny to be Empress]

  

 Newsmongers (1821)

  

 Pitlessie Fair (1804)

  

 Reading the Will (1820)

  

 Self-Portrait 1805)

  

 The Blind Fiddler (1806)

  

 The Defense of Saragossa (1828)

[depicts the Spanish efforts to resist the second siege of Saragossa in Spain by the 

troops of Napoleon. It highlights Agustina de Aragon, the Maid of Saragossa, 

who took a place at the guns during the three month siege in 1808]
  

 The First Earring (1835)

  

 The Letter of Introduction (1813)

[a very well portrayed little drama]

  

 The Pedlar (1814)

  

 The Penny Wedding (1818)

[nowadays they run about $10K (if you're frugal)]

  

The Refusal (1814)

[Wilkie took his subject from the Robert Burns song 'Duncan Gray', (1798)
in which proud Maggie initially refuses Duncan's proposal of marriage,
but later changes her mind. Wilkie's friend, the painter William Mulready,
was the model for Duncan.]

Peter Graham

Peter Graham (1836-1921) was a Scottish landscape artist. At least given the examples here, he seems to have been drawn to bleak landscapes.

 After the Massacre of Glencoe (1889)

  

 Highland Cattle in a Mountainous Landscape (1900)

  

 The Grass Crown Headland of a Rocky Shore

  

Wandering Shadows (1878)

Waller Hugh Paton

Waller Hugh Paton (1828-1895) was a Scottish landscape artist.

 'Mang the Braes of Balquhidder (1860)

[this is a traditional Scottish song]

  

 Castletown of Braemar

  

 Craigmillar Castle (1861)

 

 Entrance to the Cuiraing, Skye (1873)

  

 In the Devon Valley near Dollar - After Rain (1874)

  

 Loch Achray, the Pleased Lake (1859)

  

 On the Cree at Newton Stewart

  

On the Wooden Jetty