Bit of culture on here for once, JMW Turner's sketchbook of Sneck from 1831: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/inverness-sketchbook-r1135411#entry-mai
Seems to have taken the town seriously as a subject for his art, though I don't know much about his time in the Highlands and if he had any connections apart from as a traveller.