JAMES BALLANTINE BIOGRAPHY
JAMES BALLANTINE BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
BALLANTINE, JAMES (1808-1877). —Artist and author, born in Edinburgh, began life as a house painter. He studied art, and became one of the first to revive the art of glass-painting, on which subject he wrote a treatise. He was the author of The Gaberlunzie's Wallet (1843), Miller of Deanhaugh (1845), Poems (1856), 100 Songs with Music (1865), and a Life of David Roberts, R.A. (1866).