Studio: international art (77.1919)

THE PAINTINGS OF J. LAWTON WINGATE, P.R.S.A.

“EARLY SUMMER.” OIL PAINTING
BY J. LAWTON WINGATE, P.R.S.A.

as he says, with irresistible force. Forth-
with he commenced that career of un-
broken progress in his profession which is
maintained to-day though nearly half a
century has passed since then. In 1874
Mr, Wingate went to Muthill in Perth-
shire, where he studied rustic subjects,
painting The Wanderers and The Quoiters,
two pictures which drew the attention of
the public to the fast-ripening powers of the
artist. The first-named ensured his elec-
tion to Associate rank in the Academy.
From 1880 to 1886 Mr. Wingate made
Muthill his home, and in the latter year he
gained full membership of the Academy.
Later he removed to Colinton, and after-
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wards to Slateford, both in the vicinity of
Edinburgh, and in 1913 came to the capital.

In the Perthshire period incident played
an important part in his work, though even
then the outstanding feature was the land-
scape. From the Colinton period onward
he concentrated on pure landscape, much
of his finest work being painted in the
vicinity of his home. Latterly he has
studied a good deal in Arran, the moorlands
of which gave him the landscape base on
which he constructed a marvellous succes-
sion of revelations of the glories of cloud-
land, while the restful beauties of Loch
Fyne and the Clyde estuary gave opportu-
nity for variety of subject in rendering sun-