Scottish colourists

Abbot Hall Art Gallery will present works by the Scottish Colourists in its last major exhibition before it closes for redevelopment.

Demand for works by The Scottish Colourists is at an all-time high. Find out more about the group and its artistic influence

ALISON was given the label after critics noticed a similarity between her work and those of the famous group of painters of more than one hundred years ago.

Peploe is one of the group of four artists known as the 'Scottish Colourists'. Born in Edinburgh, he studied art in Paris and lived there from 1910 to 1912. It was through painting holidays in Northern France that he was introduced to the use of bold colour, inspired by the...

Samuel John Peploe RSA was born at 39 Manor Place, Edinburgh on 27 January 1871, the son of Robert Luff Peploe, Secretary of the Commercial Bank Edinburgh, and his second wife Anne Watson. After the death of his father, Peploe’s guardians tried to persuade him to pursue a career in the army; the idea did not appeal.

Samuel John Peploe

Fergusson's 'Poise' was offered at Christie's Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale in London yesterday with a guide price of £80,000, but it ended up selling for almost eight times the estimate.

The sitter in this painting is Bethia Hamilton Don Wauchope (1854 - 1944), an Edinburgh model who posed regularly for Cadell from about 1911 to 1926. The distinctive mauve-coloured walls indicate that the portrait was painted in the artist's studio in Ainslie Place, Edinburgh, where the artist lived from 1920. After the First World War, Cadell abandoned his feathery impressionistic manner for this style, using bold colours and scarcely-visible brushstrokes. Cadell often included the names of…

View Carnations (Circa 1932) By Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell; oil on panel; 30.5 by 22.5cm. ; Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.