William Oliphant Hutchison

Sir William Oliphant Hutchison LLD PRSA (2 July 1889 – 5 February 1970) was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter.

On leaving he started the Edinburgh Group, holding exhibitions for three consecutive years, with Eric Robertson, Alick Riddell Sturrock, John Guthrie Spence Smith,[1] Dorothy Johnstone, Mary Newbery,[2] and David Macbeth Sutherland who later became Principal at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen.

Hutchison enlisted during the First World War serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery and being stationed in Malta, later being badly wounded in France.

Here he successfully worked as a portrait painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, becoming a member of the Savage Club, and enjoying a large circle of friends, mainly from the art world.

The school maintained an interest in those staff and students serving during World War II, sending them gifts and cards.