John Scougal is known to have painted at least two portraits of the first baronets.
He was a cousin to Patrick Scougal (died 1682), Bishop of Aberdeen, John Scougal is said to have been born at Leith, where his father had a residence, and where several of his works were still in the Town Hall in the nineteenth century.
Waitt was taught by John Scougal, and started out as a decorative painter focusing mainly on still lifes.
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