James Coutts Michie

James Coutts Michie Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy (born Aboyne, Scotland 29th July 1861, died Cambledon near the family home at Haslemere, England 18th December 1919) was a Scottish painter who specialised in landscapes and portraits. He was the third son of a merchant, Harry Michie, and Elizabeth Coutts. He studied under Joseph Farquharson at the Trustee Academy in Edinburgh and later with Carolus-Duran in Paris. He travelled widely on the continent and north Africa before settling in England about 1893. His paintings include, An Autumn Landscape, Normandy Orchard, Gathering Firewood, Snow Scene, Autumn and a portrait of Elizabeth Crombie Duthie in 1885. In 1883 Elizabeth Crombie Duthie gave Duthie Park to the city of Aberdeen in memory of her uncle and brother. He became a key member of the Aberdeen Artist's Society from the late 1880s. Later he became an adviser to the collector George McCulloch and married his widow, Mary, in 1908.

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