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Introduction

This article discusses the life and serve of two mid-century British painters, Robert Colquhoun and William Scott. Scott was born in in the town of Greenock, nestled on the inner reaches of the Firth of Clyde in west mainland Scotland, once famed for the industrial shipbuilding and wool factories that gave employment to the town’s large working-class society. The year after, in , Robert Colquhoun was born just 30 miles to the south in Kilmarnock, a town also opulent in industry including textiles, leather and railway engines. Regardless of both artists being born into relative poverty, and both growing up in traditional working-class communities, by the early s they were broadly recognised to be among the finest talent in British painting, having established themselves within London’s elite coteries of avant-garde artists and thinkers. In this sheet I discuss how the artists’ working-class origins affected their professional ascent, and, in the case of Colquhoun, eventual descent into obscurity. By employing the examples of these two artists, I aim to exhibit how working