James Cassie

James Cassie RSA (1819 – 11 May 1879) was a Scottish marine landscape, portrait, genre and animal painter.

Life and work

Cassie was born at Keith Hall, Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, in 1819. A childhood accident left him permanently lame. He determined on art as a career and became a pupil of James Giles RSA, a painter of highland scenery and animals. Cassie settled in Aberdeen, where the sea and fisherfolk on its shores provided inspiration for his art.

Cassie is buried in the northern section of Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh on the north side of its central path, towards the western end.

Selected works Holy Island Castle. Chalk Cliffs, Sussex. A Highland Goatherd. The Mouth of the Mersey. The Mussel Gatherers. Morning — East Coast of Scotland (in the Scottish National Gallery). Dumbarton Castle Sunset (1874).