Linton, SIR JAMES DRUMGOLE,

Linton, SIR JAMES DRUMGOLE, water-colour and oil painter, was born in London, 26th December 1840. He laboured with success to elevate the status of his favourite branch of art, painting in water-colours; and in 1883 the Institute of Water-colour Painters, of which he had been elected a member in 1867, was reorganised, its title being henceforth the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours, and its exhibitions being thrown open to everybody, not confined, as hitherto, to members. Linton himself was chosen president in 1884, and in the following year was knighted. His most successful pictures are those of single figures. As a painter in oil his most notable productions are the 'Marriage of the Duke of Albany,' painted by royal command in 1885, and a series illustrative of the 16th century for a private house at Nottingham.