t of Scottish painters who have had to pass through the purgatory of trade to the paradise of art. Now and then the probation is varied by the lawyer's stool, but the selling of law is to an artistic soul a still more barren source of satisfaction than the selling of things to eat or wear. It was… … OVER THE BORDER. FROM A PEN SKETCH BY J. MACWHIRTER. with the sea and his first attempt to paint. In the latter he was encouraged, and to some extent helped, by Milne Donald, with whom he used to go on long sketching excursions in the country between Glasgow and the mountains. Like most men of…
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