John Duncan Fergusson was a Scottish artist, regarded as one of the major artists of the Scottish Colourists

Scottish Colourists

The Scottish Colourists were a group of painters from Scotland whose work was not very highly regarded when it was first exhibited in the 1920s and 1930s, but which in the late 20th Century came to have a formative influence on contemporary Scottish art....

 school of painting.
Fergusson was born in Leith, Edinburghref name= stirling/> He was the first of four children. Although he briefly trained as a Naval Surgeon, Fergusson soon realised that his vocation was painting and he enrolled at the Trustees Academy, an Edinburgh-based art school. He rapidly became disenchanted with the rigid teaching style, however, and elected to teach himself to paint.