n Kilmarnock,
brother of William Hart, already mentioned, Academican of the National
Academy of Design, was noted for his landscapes and paintings of
cattle and sheep. His "Summer Memory of Berkshire" and his "Indian
Summer" attracted considerable attention at the Paris Salon in 1878.
James David Smillie (1833-1909), son of James Smillie, the Scottish
engraver, during the Civil War made designs for government bonds and
greenbacks. In 1864 he took up landscape painting and was one of the
founders of the American Water Color Society (1867) and National
Academican in 1876. His brother, George Henry Smillie (b. 1840), was
also distinguished as a landscape painter. He made a sketching tour in
the Rocky Mountains and the Yosemite Valley in 1871, and became a
National Academican in 1882. Walter Shirlaw, born in Paisley,
Scotland, in 1838, died in Madrid, Spain, in 1909, was the first
President of the Society of American Artists. His easel pictures "are
marked by rich color and fine composition, and he is one of the few
American artists who have successfully painted the nude. His
water-colors and etchings have brought him high reputation in these
forms of expression." Walter MacEwen, born in Chicago of Scottish
parents, has painted many pictures and has received medals and
decorations for his work. In 1895-96 he painted nine large panels and
a number of small ones for the Hall of Heroes in the Library of
Congress. George Inness (1825-94), the famous American painter, is
believed to have been of Scottish ancestry. James T. Dick (1834-68),
William Keith (b. Aberdeenshire, 1839), Robert Frank Dallas (b. 1855),
John White Alexander (b. 1856), Robert Bruce Crane (b. 1857), Addison
Thomas Miller (b. 1860), and John Humpreys Johnston, are all artists
of Scottish parentage or Scottish ancestry. John Robinson Tait (b.
1834), artist and author, son of a native of Edinburgh, has written
much on art subjects. John Wesley Beatty (b. 1851), Art Director of
the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, is of Scottish parentage. John
Ward Dunsmore (b. 1856), Director of the Detroit Museum of Arts and
Founder of the Detroit School of Arts; and John Ferguson Weir (b.
1841), Dean of the School of Fine Arts at Yale University, are of
Scottish descent.

Alexander Lawson (1773-1846), born in Lanarkshire, died in
Philadelphia, was famous as the engraver of the best plates in
Alexander Wilsons's _Ornithology_ and the plates on conchology for
Haldeman and Binn