부산대학교 도서관

(b Greenock, June 10, 1859; d Rhu, Strathclyde, Sept 6, 1930). Scottish painter. He originally enrolled at Glasgow University to study law but in 1877 his father, a member of the Scottish clergy, allowed him to train as a painter under James Drummond (1816–77). In 1878 he began work in John Pettie’s studio in London where he was encouraged to produce academic history and genre paintings. Every summer from 1878 to 1881, however, Guthrie returned to Scotland to paint landscapes alongside Joseph Crawhall and E. A. Walton. He was influenced by the work of Jean-François Millet and the Barbizon school and in the spring of 1882 completed his first major realist painting, Funeral Service in the Highlands (Glasgow, A.G. & Mus.) In 1882 Guthrie encountered the naturalist paintings of Jules Bastien-Lepage in London and that summer at Crowland, Lincs, he began his first naturalist painting, To Pastures New (Aberdeen, A.G.). Guthrie adapted Bastien-Lepage’s style, introducing more colour and direct sunlight, and over the next four years produced the most important naturalist paintings of the Glasgow school, becoming an important member of the ...