early life and education sir james guthrie was a scottish painter, born on june 10, 1859, in greenock. he originally enrolled at glasgow university to study law but abandoned this in favor of painting. unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not study in paris and was mostly self-taught. career guthrie lived most of his life in the scottish borders, where he painted some of his most important works, including a hind's daughter (1883) and schoolmates (1884). he was strongly influenced by the french realists, especially jules bastien-lepage. in 1888, he was elected an associate of the royal s…