As children, they featured in the artwork of Scots artist Joan Eardley. Yesterday, some of her subjects met up at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh as a major exhibition of her work prepared for opening.
Eardley died from cancer in 1963, at the age of 42. The retrospective features more than 100 artworks in all, including oil paintings, works on paper, a sketchbook and six cases of archive material including photographs taken by the artist.
Best known for capturing street scenes of 1940s Glasgow, Eardley also painted dramatic seascapes - particularly from around the north-east coast.
When planning the exhibition, Fiona Pearson, senior curator at the National Galleries of Scotland, said she hoped it would lead people to reassess Eardley as more than simply a "provincial artist".
Ms Pearson said: "She was able to capture things that are now lost, the tenement life of Glasgow, the fishing industry of the north-east: she was very clued into the lost ways of life."
Eardley was born in 1921 in Sussex, and grew up in London, but her mother was Scottish, and they moved to Bearsden, near Glasgow, in 1939.
She studied at the Glasgow School of Art and had two studios in Glasgow, one in Cochrane Street - near the City Chambers - and another in Townhead.
The exhibition opens today and runs until January 13.
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