Jane Watts

[3] Her accomplishments - which appear to have been "astonishing skill in painting"[2] - were sufficiently noted to gain her a place in Men of Mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed,[4] an 1895 three volume set of biographies of local worthies in which she is one of only two women featured; and an extended entry in The Annual Biography and Obituary for 1827.

She was largely self-taught, receiving a few lessons from a Kelso artist, and learning to mix colours from a commercial sign-writer.

She studied for three months under Alexander Nasmyth, albeit her obituary makes clear that his instruction was unhelpful.

[3] Her obituary speaks of her having completed 40 or 50 oil paintings, and in addition, watercolours and pencil architectural drawings.

[3] The painter Robert Edmonstone, a Kelso native and contemporary of Waldie, created a portrait of her, after her death, based on miniatures made whilst she was alive.