Samuel Peploe

Samuel John Peploe ( born January 27, 1871 in Edinburgh, † October 11, 1935 ) was a British Post-Impressionist painter from the group of Scottish colourists.

From 1893 to 1894 he studied at the Royal Scottish Academy and later at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi in Paris, where he became a room with Robert Brough shared. In 1895 he made ​​a Holland stay reproductions of paintings by Rembrandt and Frans Hals. Beginning in 1901, he made ​​numerous trips in northern France and to the Hebrides with his friend John Duncan Fergusson. Inspired by the prevailing light conditions, he experimented with the generous use of colors. The influence of the simple realism of French painters and of the Glasgow School are indicative of his landscapes.

Peploe went to Paris in 1910 for two years and focused on shooting landscapes and still lifes. The latter are strongly influenced by Manet and consist of a combination of rapid brushstrokes with impasto painting against dark backgrounds, where strong light effects play a role.

On his return to Scotland, he made friends with numerous trips around the country and spent several summers in the 1920s with Francis Cadell, another painter of the Scottish colourists, on Iona to paint there.

His whole life Peploe was heavily influenced by French painting, and although he was not especially abstract painting, impress his images through the generous use of strong colors, linear composition and precise execution.