![‘A Portrait Group’ by James Cowie [National Galleries of Scotland/Bridgeman Images]](https://www.spectator.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/NGS_69343.jpg?w=730&h=486&crop=1)
Alexander McCall Smith
There is a painting in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art that I find quite haunting. It is called ‘A Portrait Group’, and is by the Scottish artist James Cowie. Cowie painted this picture in 1933 and then reworked it in 1940. He was an art teacher, and often used his pupils as models.
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