Samuel John Peploe was a Scottish Post-Impressionist painter, noted for his still life works and for being one of the group of four painters that became known as the Scottish Colourists. The other colourists were John Duncan Fergusson, Francis Cadell and Leslie Hunter.
self portrait (1904)
A Rocky Shore, Iona by Samuel Peploe
Still life: apples and jar, circa 1912–16, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Stormy Weather, Iona (c. 1929) Aberdeen Archives Gallery and Museums
The Scottish Colourists were a group of four painters, three from Edinburgh, whose Post-Impressionist work, though not universally recognised initially, came to have a formative influence on contemporary Scottish art and culture. The four artists, Francis Cadell, John Duncan Fergusson, Leslie Hunter and Samuel Peploe, were prolific painters spanning the turn of the twentieth century until the beginnings of World War II. While now banded as one group with a collective achievement and a common sense of British identity, it is a misnomer to believe their artwork or their painterly careers were heterogeneous.
Francis Cadell, The Vase of Water, 1922
Samuel Peploe, The Black Bottle, about 1905, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh