George Leslie Hunter

George Leslie Hunter (Rothesay, 1877 - Glasgow, 1931) was a Scottish Post-Impressionist painter and one of the four members of the Scottish Colourists, alongside Fergusson, Peploe and Cadell. His work, focused on still lifes, landscapes and portraits, is admired for its handling of light and for touches of colour that define form. Although critics respected him during his lifetime, his reputation grew after his death until he became one of Scotland's most sought-after painters.

Hunter emigrated as a boy with his family to California, where he worked as a magazine illustrator in San Francisco. After his first paintings were destroyed in the fire that followed the 1906 earthquake, he returned to Scotland. Following stays in Paris and at the Étaples artists' colony, he began to develop a distinctive style. In 1915 he held his first solo exhibition in Glasgow with the Alexander Reid gallery.

From 1922 he travelled often across Europe and settled in Fife. His landscapes of this period drew on Cézanne and on views of Loch Lomond. After spending time in the south of France, he had a successful exhibition in New York in 1929, but a health crisis later prevented him from working regularly. He died in Glasgow in 1931, aged 54.