John Kelso Hunter

During 1861 and 1873, Hunter exhibited seven paintings at the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts: In 1868 he published his first book, The Retrospect of an Artist's Life, subtitled Memorials of West-Country Men and Manners of the Past Half Century.

[5] Acquainted in his youth with many who had known Robert Burns, and with some of the heroes of the poet's verse, Hunter embodied these recollections in a volume entitled Life Studies of Character, printed in 1870.

The book throws much light on the works of Burns,[6] especially on the origins of 'Death and Dr. Hornbrook,' and faithfully describes the society into which the poet was born.

Valuable notices are supplied of the song writer, Tannahill, and other minor poets of the north; every chapter is prefaced by a quote of verse, or other axiom.

[7] Isabella Hunter married Andrew Bryce on the fifth June 1857 at Eglinton st 'according to the establish Church of Scotland.'