They share a connection through Edinburgh College of Art, where most studied and worked together during or soon after the First World War.
As friends and colleagues, they discussed painting and were influenced by one another's work.
[1] They predominantly painted still life and Scottish landscapes, and shared an interest in working both in oil and watercolour.
Art critic Giles Sutherland, writing in The Times, has suggested: "The work of the Edinburgh School is characterised by virtuoso displays in the use of paint, vivid and often non-naturalistic colour and themes such as still-life, seascape and landscape.
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