Peter Graham (1836-1921) was a talented Edinburgh-born and trained artist who excelled in creating picturesque, romantic scenes of Scotland for a Victorian audience hungry for such escapism. Perhaps due to the Queen’s residence at Balmoral, views of Highland cattle were particularly in vogue, and Peter Graham produced many such successful paintings modelled from his own herd of Highland cattle at his English home in Buckinghamshire. This view of a lonely and dramatic section of Scottish coastline, deliberately non-specific, invites viewers to imagine themselves anywhere they wish, alone, windswept, wild and free.