Samuel John Peploe

1871 - 1935

Impressionist painter, particularly noted for his still-life works. Born in Edinburgh and trained at the Trustees' Academy, which later became the Edinburgh College of Art, Peploe became one of the Scottish Colourists who were influenced by the French use of colour. From 1901 he developed the habit of taking painting trips to Northern France and the Hebrides, with his friend J.D. Fergusson (1874 - 1961) whom he had met in 1895. In 1910, Peploe married Margaret MacKay, whom he had met on a painting trip to Barra, and the couple moved to Paris, which reinvigorated his painting. They returned to Edinburgh in 1912. He visited Kirkcudbrightshire regularly from 1914 and, during the 1920s, he spent several summers with Francis Cadell (1883 - 1937), another of the colourists, in Iona.

He died in Edinburgh.

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