James Cassie

James Cassie RSA (1819 – 11 May 1879) was a Scottish marine landscape, portrait, genre and animal painter.

He determined on art as a career and became a pupil of James Giles RSA, a painter of highland scenery and animals.

[1] In his style, he preferred broad harmonious effects to elaborate detail, and he most excelled at marine landscapes.

An anecdote describes how he and Philip were on a sketching holiday together, in Aberdeenshire and the northern Highlands, when they chanced to meet fellow artist Sam Bough at a remote hostelry.

[1][2] Cassie is buried in the northern section of Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh on the north side of its central path, towards the western end.