Edward Arthur Walton04 during World War I

The White House, New Abbey Unable, during the First World War, to spend his summers at the Old Vicarage at Wenhaston in Suffolk, E A Walton, as had many other of the Glasgow Boys discovered Galloway, working first at New Abbey and later at New Galloway and finally Gatehouse of Fleet. While Walton did paint the Abbey, as in the fine work Sweetheart Abbey in the collection of Perth Museum and Art Gallery, he also drew inspiration, as in this picture, from the old houses in the village.