John Quinton Pringle

John Quinton Pringle (13 December 1864 – 25 April 1925) was a Scottish painter, influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage and associated with the Glasgow Boys.

Pringle attended evening and Saturday morning classes (at the same time as Charles Rennie Mackintosh) between 1883 and 1888.

In 1901 he won a gold medal for life drawing at the South Kensington national competition.

Many are small scale oil on canvas, with subjects often including his family, friends, backcourts or local surroundings.

Pringle visited Normandy in 1910 and spent a couple of summers on the Shetland island of Whalsay, (where he stayed with the local doctor, W.G.

John Quinton Pringle (self portrait) c.1895
Boy in a Blue Hat. 1903. Oil on canvas by John Quinton Pringle
Muslin Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow by John Quinton Pringle (detail)
Still Life with the Head of Dante