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Wintour was born in Edinburgh and attended <strong>the</strong> Trustees Academy under William Allan. He devoted <strong>the</strong> first half <strong>of</strong><br />
his pr<strong>of</strong>essional life to portrait and genre painting before concentrating on landscape and so follows a similar course<br />
to William McTaggart. His later landscape owes more to <strong>the</strong> romanticism <strong>of</strong> John Thomson <strong>of</strong> Duddingston or John<br />
Constable than to <strong>the</strong> prevailing realism <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> day exemplified in Scotland by Sam Bough and Alexander Fraser.<br />
Caw identifies his best work as being <strong>of</strong> his last years; poetic celebrations <strong>of</strong> nature made by moonlight or in <strong>the</strong><br />
gloaming, <strong>of</strong>ten in front <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> subject so small in scale and at <strong>the</strong>ir best close in spirit to Corot. Sadly his work seemed<br />
out <strong>of</strong> step with <strong>The</strong> Academy in Scotland and as his career declined he turned to drink and fur<strong>the</strong>r alienated his<br />
supporters. He can be seen today as an underrated figure representing <strong>the</strong> ‘romantic’ in <strong>Scottish</strong> art in an era when<br />
realism and naturalism prevailed.<br />
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