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Oil Painting by James Lawton Wingate

DescriptionOil Painting by James lawton Wingate 'Autumn Harvest' He worked as a commercial clerk, taking drawing lessons in the early morning. Initially he was influenced by Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites, and first exhibited in 1864 at the Glasgow Fine Art Institute. The appreciation he received led him to abandon his job and tour Italy in 1867-68 where he created 150 watercolour drawings. Returning to Edinbrough, Scotland, he lived at Hamilton, and developed a keen skill in painting landscapes and woodland scenes while studying at the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA). While in Edinbrough he met Hugh Cameron at Comrie, in Perthshire, in the autumn of 1873. Cameron was a genial and helpful critic. Wingate defended his work as being true to fact and Cameron's reply "I feel the work to be wrong and art is not an affair of argument, it is an affair of feeling" is said to have been a significant impact on Wingate. In 1874 he moved to Crieff and later to Muthill, painting rustic genre scenes and later increasingly impressionistic landscapes which made his reputation. After 1880 he exhibited regularly at the RSA, becoming its President in 1919, also the year in which he was knighted. Later he moved to Colinton and afterwards to Slateford, both in the vicinity of Edinburgh. He became President of the RSA in 1919, resigning shortly before his death in Edinburgh, aged 77, in 1924. SMA DimensionsImage dimensions approx 34.5cm x 24cm Frame dimensions approx 54cm x DateLate 19th Century/Early 20th Century ConditionGood Price£1950.00 €2281.89 $2426.19
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