James Lawton Wingate

Sir James Lawton Wingate (9 October 1846 – 22 April 1924)[1][2] was a Scottish painter of the late nineteenth century.

He was born in Kelvinhaugh, Glasgow, and initially worked as a commercial clerk, taking drawing lessons in the early morning.

The appreciation he received led him to abandon his job and tour Italy in 1867-68 where he created 150 watercolour drawings.

[2] Returning to Scotland, he lived at Hamilton, and developed a keen skill in painting landscapes and woodland scenes while studying at the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA).

[2] In 1874 he moved to Crieff and later to Muthill, painting rustic genre scenes and later increasingly impressionistic landscapes which made his reputation.