James Alfred Aitken (1846–1897) was a Scottish landscape painter.

Life

Aitken studied art with Horatio McCulloch, before moving to

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. There he attended the Royal Dublin Society's school, and had

Henry MacManus Henry MacManus ( MRHA) ( – 22 March 1878) was an Irish artist and teacher. Life Henry MacManus was probably born in Monaghan around 1810. MacManus's friend, Charles Gavan Duffy, stated that he was orphaned when his father, who was a cath ...

as teacher. In 1872 Aitken moved to Glasgow. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Glasgow Institute and

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Aitken, James Alfred 1846 births 1897 deaths Scottish watercolourists Landscape artists 19th-century Scottish painters Scottish male painters 19th-century Scottish male artists