Cadzow Forest, oil on canvas, 24 x 29 1/8 inches, signed lower right (black light photo shown). Samuel Bough was an English-born landscape painter who spent much of his career working in Scotland. He was self-taught but mixed with local artists such as Richard Harrington and George Sheffield, and was strongly influenced by the work of J. M. W. Turner. Encouraged by Daniel Macnee to take up landscape painting, he moved to Hamilton from 1851-1854 and worked with Alexander Fraser. Cadzow Forest, influenced by Horatio McCulloch, is a portrait of two ancient trees, as shown here. Bough's work is on view at the National Gallery of Scotland.