James Waylen

James Waylen (19 April 1810–1894) was a 19th-century English painter.

He was already successful as an artist in his 20s, when he exhibited two portraits and a work entitled Marmion Borne Down by the Scottish Spearmen at Flodden at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 1834 to 1838.

[3] He was born in Devizes, Wiltshire, in southern England on 19 April 1810 of Robert and Sarah Waylen.

[4] On 2 June 1829 Waylen came to the office of the famous civil engineer Thomas Telford, designing London's St Katharine Docks.

[5][6] Working in Telford's drawing office, he made long-life friends with another civil engineer, the Scottish George Turnbull, who in 1838 asked Waylen to travel from London to Huntingtower near Perth in Scotland to paint a portrait in oils of Turnbull's father William Turnbull, who wrote to his son: Waylen seems just the same unassuming, kindhearted creature as when last here: his heart appears to be in his profession, and he has made more progress in it than could have been expected in the time; we find him very amusing in the accounts of his travels.

" Colonel George Turnbull and sergeant play a strathspey , 1770, New York", 26x32 inches, 1884. The text below includes the Colonel with a favorite sergeant, the solatium [compensation] of a strathspey after a weary day's work. The prostration of the regimental dog indicates the severity of the march, while the approach of the whisky induces the sergeant to beat time with encreased [stet] emphasis. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]