Ballantine, JAMES (1808-77), artist and poet, born in Edinburgh, was brought up as a house-painter, but afterwards learned drawing under Sir William Allen, and was one of the first to revive the art of glass-painting. He was commissioned to execute the stained-glass windows for the House of Lords, and in 1845 published a treatise on Glass Staining, which was translated into German. Two prose volumes, The Gaberlunzie's Wallet (1843), and Miller of Deanhaugh (1845), contain some of his best known songs and ballads. He was author of Poems (1856 and 1865); One Hundred Songs with
Music (1865); Life of David Roberts, R.A. (1866), and Lilias Lee (1871).