[Illustration: AGE 16.
_From a Photo. by Robert Burton, Dalmeny._]
[Illustration: AGE 32.
_From an Oil Painting by J. Pettie, R.A._]
[Illustration: AGE 40.
_From a Photo. by Fradelle._]
[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.
_From a Photo. by Raymond Lynde._]
Mr. John MacWhirter, A.R.A., was born at Slateford, near Edinburgh, and
educated at Peebles. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish
Academy in 1863. In the following year he came to London, and was
elected an Associate of the Royal Academy on January 22nd, 1879. He was
elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Scotch Academy in 1882; elected
member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, same year;
exhibited in R.A., 1884, "The Windings of the Forth," "A Sermon by the
Sea," and "Home of the Grizzly Bear"; 1885, "Track of a Hurricane,"
"Iona," "Loch Scavaig"; "The Three Witches," 1886. Mr. MacWhirter has
painted "Loch Cornisk, Skye," 1867; "A great while ago the world began
with hey ho, the wind and the rain," 1871; "Caledonia," 1875; "The Lady
of the Woods," 1876; "The Three Graces," 1878; "The Valley by the Sea,"
1879; "The Lord of the Glen," 1880; "Sunday in the Highlands," and
"Mountain Tops," 1881; "A Highland Auction" and "Ossian's Grave," 1882;
"Corrie, Isle of Arran," "Sunset Fires," "Nature's Mirror," "A Highland
Harvest," 1883; and "Edinburgh from Salisbury Crag," 1887.