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“To few men has a more beautiful vision of the world been granted than that revealed in his pictures. His landscapes bring us close in touch with that poetry of earth which Keats assures us is never dead, and, if one loves nature well, they must assuredly awaken a responsive thrill. They are reminiscent of all times and seasons, but most of hours when winds are soft and Nature smiles. They breathe of country lanes and sunlit fields, of dewy pastures, of quivering leaves and hay or hawthorn-scented breezes. To the majority of men, consigned by fate to toil in stony cities, communion with Nature and the content and joy it brings is granted seldom, but, if they may not meet her face to face, pictures such as these, drenched in her spirit, bring her very near.” James Caw, Scottish Painting, (T.C. and E.C. Jack, London, 1908), p.320 Wingate was born at Kelvinheugh near Glasgow and came late to art enrolling in the Trustees Academy aged 26, encouraged by his friend WD Mackay. He lived from 1881 in Muthill in Perthshire and his paintings of rural life depict a disappearing world. He then moved to Colinton in Edinburgh and became increasingly a painter of atmospheric effects. He was a very successful and prolific painter exhibiting 225 pictures in the RSA in his lifetime and showing four times with The Scottish Gallery from 1900 where his Memorial show was mounted in 1924. 40
sir James lawton Wingate (1846–1924) Gargunnock oil on canvas, 25.5 x 35.5 cms signed lower left exhibited: aitken Dott & son, the scottish Gallery, 1941 41
Page 1: the taste of JW Blyth
Page 5 and 6: Foreword Michael Portillo I knew my
Page 7 and 8: elevation plan to Wilby house, 1909
Page 9 and 10: Collecting Blyth kept a simple reco
Page 11 and 12: the hawcklymuir factory, Kirkcaldy
Page 13 and 14: and Explanatory Notes on the Art of
Page 15 and 16: Peploe in terms of colour: ‘altho
Page 17 and 18: Blyth’s conversion was certainly
Page 19: Trouville Harbour and Deauville (pa
Page 22 and 23: Most contemporary publications, exh
Page 24 and 25: a warning of what we have escaped i
Page 26 and 27: Vale “No plans were ever made for
Page 28 and 29: catalogue Eugène Boudin was born i
Page 30 and 31: “everything that is painted on th
Page 32 and 33: Wintour was born in Edinburgh and a
Page 34 and 35: Two years senior to his great frien
Page 36 and 37: Paintings by William McTaggart, R.S
Page 38 and 39: there are a number of pictures of R
Page 40 and 41: In July 1947 Blyth bought a picture
Page 42 and 43: “The remarkable place which he ho
Page 46 and 47: Wingate’s first arran subject exh
Page 48 and 49: Wingate’s Farm seems close in spi
Page 50 and 51: Alexander was born in Edinburgh, so
Page 52 and 53: edwin alexander (1870-1926) Moorlan
Page 54 and 55: edwin alexander (1870-1926) Doves a
Page 56 and 57: edwin alexander (1870-1926) Gullane
Page 58 and 59: edwin alexander (1870-1926) Storeho
Page 61 and 62: s.J. Peploe (1871-1935) The Lobster
Page 64 and 65: Peploe is strongly associated with
Page 66 and 67: Comrie is a village on the River ea
Page 68 and 69: s.J. Peploe (1871-1935) Paris Plage
Page 70 and 71: s.J. Peploe (1871-1935) Royan, 1910
Page 72 and 73: Peploe began to visit the south-wes
Page 74 and 75: fergusson held his first one-man-sh
Page 76 and 77: Blyth bought three hunters the othe
Page 78 and 79: Grant first visited Cassis in 1927
Page 80 and 81: Lily McDougall was born in Glasgow
Page 82: Walter Richard Sickert was born in
Page 85 and 86: Walter Richard sickert (1860-1942)
Page 87 and 88: ernest stephen lumsden (1883-1948)
Page 89 and 90: James McBey (1883-1959) Venice Gran

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