Download PDF: SJ Peploe - The Scottish Gallery

Comrie, c.1900Signed lower right and versoOil on panel, 12.3 x 21.5 cmsProvenance: The Artist, thence by descentPeploe is likely to have first come to Comrie after his sister Anniemarried Dr Fred Porter, who became the village doctor in around1898. He walked the countryside around and made several freelypainted studies on panel depicting hill and cloud. This pictureis made looking across the river Earn towards the town, justeast of the bridge which leads to Dalinross, where his sisterand brother-in-law had their house. A year or two later he willpaint his famous street scene including horse and carriage anda fashionable lady with a parasol: A Street, Comrie, lending thevillage a thoroughly Continental air. In Comrie his palette is stillrestricted but the brilliant brushwork always characteristic of hisen plein air practice is already evident.10