Surname: Cadenhead Forename(s): James b. 12 January 1858. d. 22 January 1927. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Illustrator and painter. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland. Son of George Canehead, a public
prosecutor. Educated at Aberdeen University. Further studied painting at the atelier
of Carolus-Duran in Paris (1882). Influenced by Patrick Geddes’s Celtic Revival and
collaborated with him in illustrating The Evergreen. Member of the Society of Scottish Painters, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in
Water-colours, and Scottish Arts Club. In 1912, founded the Edinburgh Society of Eight.
Biographical information: Yellow Nineties Online; The International Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, (New York: The International Studio, 1912), vol 46, pp. 10-12. (NM)