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Scottish art is the body of visual art made in what is now Scotland, or about Scottish subjects, since prehistoric times. It forms a distinctive tradition within European art, but the political union with England has led its partial subsumation in British art .
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The Coffee Pot, by Samuel Peploe (1905). The first significant group of Scottish artists to emerge in the twentieth century were the Scottish Colourists in the 1920s. The name was retrospectively given to John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961), Francis Cadell (1883–1937), Samuel Peploe (1871–1935) and Leslie Hunter (1877–1931). [2]
In 1988-89 she was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge [2] when she was the first Slade professor to lecture on Scottish art. [ 1 ] In 2017, Errington published her most recent book, Private Views , which featured images from the National Gallery's collection with verses composed in response to them.
Scottish genre art is the depiction of everyday life in Scotland, or by Scottish artists, emulating the genre art of Netherlands painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Common themes included markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes.
Simson was born at Dundee in on 17 October 1799 and baptised there on 20 October 1799. His parents were Alexander Simson and Jean Wilson. [3] He studied under Andrew Wilson at the Trustees' Academy on Picardy Place in Edinburgh, and his early pictures of landscape and marine subjects found quick sales.
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