A mother and sons - two family groups by William Oliphant Hutchison, 1925 and 1929

 Reading aloud, Marjory and the boys, 1929. The children are Robert Edward (Robin), born in 1922, and Henry Peter, born in 1919.

Family Group, 1926. A third child, a daughter, Helen Elizabeth Anne, was born in 1935.

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Sir William Oliphant Hutchison (2 July 1889, Kirkcaldy – 5 February 1970, London), Scottish portrait and landscape painter. He attended the Edinburgh College of Art between 1909 and 1912; on leaving he started the Edinburgh Group. He also worked and studied in Paris for a time, mainly painting portraits, though also producing landscape and figure paintings. He enlisted during the First World War, serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery, and later being badly wounded in France. He married painter Edward Arthur Walton's youngest daughter Margery in 1918. He and his wife occupied a studio flat in Edinburgh until 1921, before moving to London. There he successfully worked as a portrait painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, becoming a member of the Savage Club, and enjoying a large circle of friends, mainly from the art world. He then became Director of the Glasgow School of Art from 1933 until 1943. He would also serve in numerous art-related positions: Committee member of The Edinburgh College of Art, President of The Glasgow Art Club, Vice-president of The Scottish Modern Arts Association, member of the Royal Society of Arts, Honorary Member of the Royal Academy. And he served as President of the Royal Scottish Academy from 1950 to 1959. He was knighted in 1953 and died seventeen years later at the age of eighty.

The couple's daughter, Helen Elizabeth Anne, 1949.