Rattray, William
b. 1820
Attended RSA Life School 1843-44. He might be the same man as William Rattray who exhibited at the RSA in 1842-44 from 1 Elm Row, Edinburgh. Thereafter from1849-88 a John Rattray exhibited from various Edinburgh addresses, mainly portraits. According to McEwan, Peter J.M. in his Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture (p.459) these are one and the same person; John William Rattray, though on what evidence is not stated.
