Samuel Peploe
Samuel John Peploe (born January 27, 1871 in Edinburgh , † October 11, 1935 ibid) was a British late impressionist painter from the group of Scottish colorists .
From 1893 to 1894 he studied at the Royal Scottish Academy and then at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi in Paris , where he shared a room with Robert Brough . During a stay in Holland in 1895, he made reproductions of paintings by Rembrandt and Frans Hals . From 1901 he made numerous trips to northern France and the Hebrides with his friend John Duncan Fergusson . Inspired by the prevailing lighting conditions there, he experimented with the generous use of colors. The influence of the simple realism of the French painters and the Glasgow School are characteristic of his landscape paintings.
Peploe went to Paris for two years in 1910 and concentrated on landscape motifs and still lifes. The latter are very much influenced by Manet and consist of a combination of brisk brushstrokes with impasto painting in front of dark backgrounds, where strong lighting effects play a role.
After returning to Scotland, he made numerous trips through the country with friends and spent several summers in the 1920s with Francis Cadell , another painter of the Scottish colorists , on Iona to paint there.
Peploe's whole life was strongly influenced by French painting and although he did not paint particularly abstractly, his pictures impress with the generous use of strong colors, straightforward composition and precise execution.
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| SURNAME | Peploe, Samuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Peploe, Samuel John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1935 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh |