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James Guthrie

James Guthrie (1859 - 1930) was active/lived in United Kingdom, Scotland.  James Guthrie is known for Portraiture, realist bucolic scene painting with peasants.

Sir James Guthrie was a Scottish painter, best known in his own lifetime for his portraiture, although today more generally regarded as a painter of Scottish Realism.

Guthrie was born in Greenock, the youngest son of the Rev. John Guthrie, a clergyman, and Ann Orr.  He originally enrolled at Glasgow University to study law, but abandoned this in favour of painting in 1877.  Unlike many of his contemporaries he did not study in Paris, being mostly self-taught, although he was mentored for a short time by James Drummond in Glasgow and then John Pettie in London.

He lived most of his life in the Scottish Borders, most notably in Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, where he painted some of his most important works, including A Hind's Daughter (1883), and Schoolmates.  He was strongly influenced by the French Realists, especially Jules Bastien-Lepage, and was associated with the Glasgow Boys.

He was elected an associate of the Royal Scottish   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2369 characters.]  Artist bio

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