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Christine PENBERTHY (1940) Dancing Figures Watercolour, signed, 27.5cm x 16.5cm, 43cm x 32.5cm framed. Christine, an artist, illustrator and author received art lessons and we t to St Ives School of Painting joining the life classes led by Majorie Mostyn and Leonard Fuller in the 1960's.

Dennis ENDEAN IVALL (1921-2006) 'The Miner' and 'Old Quay & Cave, St Agnes Each watercolour and ink, signed, 25.5cm x 35.5cm; together with a 19th century miniature watercolour of a girl and a dog by a different hand, 10cm x 7cm. Dennis Endean Ivall was born in Essex in 1921, the youngest of four children. His father was then an accountant with ICI and his mother was a member of the Endean family of St. Agnes, so he visited Cornwall for holidays from an early age. He attended the Sir George Monoux Grammar School in Chingford, and then joined ICI. In the Second World War he enlisted in the Ordnance Corps, seeing active service in the retreat from Burma, and later in Ceylon and the Cocos Islands, where he reached the rank of Warrant Officer, First Class. After the war he trained as an artist and art teacher. Working at first as a freelance artist, he later became an art teacher in Barnstaple, North Devon – the nearest to Cornwall that he could get at the time. In 1973, Dennis took early retirement and moved to Cornwall, living at first at Ponsanooth and then for thirty years at Perranwell. He worked as a designer, a record agent and principally as a heraldic artist and designer, only retiring from this work when suffering from illness in the last three years of his life. Heraldic art was his great passion, and he carried out the design and painting of coats of arms for many clients across the world. He was the author of the book Cornish Heraldry and Symbolism and, among the work he carried out in Cornwall, was the painting of the organ panels at Cuby church, the repainting of the coat of arms at St.Dennis after the fire and the design and painting of a banner for St.Agnes and, of course, the banner of St. Piran in this church. Heraldry and his military service gave rise to an interest in army insignia and badges and, with Professor Charles Thomas, he was the author and illustrator of Military Insignia of Cornwall. He was a founder member of the Cornwall Militaria Group, and a long serving member of the Perranarworthal branch of the British Legion. His enthusiasm for heraldry led Dennis to join the Order of St.Lazarus, an international charitable order founded in the Holy Land. He was a member of the Commandery of Avalon in the West Country, and became Judge of Arms of the Commandery, of the Bailiwick of England and then of the whole order worldwide, attaining the rank of Knight Grand Cross. Although he was such a talented artist, with a worldwide clientele, he was always ready to lend his talents to local activities, whether painting scenery for Carnon Downs Drama Group, drawing posters for the Women’s Institute or touching up the lettering on the war memorial.

Joan PILBEAM (XX-XXI) Untitled Abstract Watercolour, signed, 12cm x 12.5cm, 24.5cm x 24.5cm framed. Together with two other works, each signed, inlcuding 'Swirling Fog, signed Judy A. Inman, Joan Pilbeam claims an eclectic background in art studies, mentioning Manchester, Khartoum, Hereford and Keele University. She married first in 1950 and spent eight exciting years in Africa including long treks in the Sudanese desert. In 1975 she was enged in the antiques business in the UK and though exchanging that for the 'simple life' in Herefordshire, she was able to exhibit regularly, alongside bringing up three daughters. After her first husband's death there was a fallow period, and then remarriage in 1985 which brought about a rebirth of her painting. During that period she exhibited at Keele, Stafford, Stoke, Royal Birmingham Society of Artist, which brought her to Newlyn in 1996. She exhibited work at the Salthouse Gallery, Penwith Society of Artists (of which she was an Associate) in St Ives (1998).

watercolour on paper, signed, titled label verso mounted, framed and under glass image size 37cm x 54cm, overall size 48cm x 65cm Exhibition label verso: Earl Haig - New Paintings 10 July - 7 August 1993, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Comment: a spectacular and large example with prestigious documented exhibition provenance. Note: Earl Haig (son of the Field Marshall) started painting as a prisoner of war. The paintings and drawings he made in Colditz Castle were exhibited at The Scottish Gallery in 1945 in an exhibition attended by HM The Queen. He went on to train under Victor Pasmore and Lawrence Gowing at Camberwell School of Art, London when fellow Scot William Johnstone was Principal. He had a distinguished exhibiting career primarily with The Scottish Gallery which spanned over six decades, concluding with his remarkable 90th birthday show in 2008. However, the same prestigious Edinburgh Gallery staged a Memorial show for Haig in 2011 and a major centenary show in 2018. In 2020 another solo show was staged (November - December 2020) by The Scottish Gallery focussing on examples from the Scottish Borders and Italy, where he spent an increasing amount of time from the mid-1970s. Earl Haig's work was shown widely elsewhere in Britain and on the continent, latterly including Clarges Gallery and Gallery 10, London. His work held in the collections of HM The Queen and other members of the Royal family, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and further public and notable corporate collections. Earl Haig was a member of the Scottish Arts Council and of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland and a Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland. As a landscape painter he was fond of simple, almost naïve images infused with a rich palette. Lived in Bemersyde, Melrose, Scotland.

watercolour on paper, signed, titled verso mounted, framed and under glass image size 34cm x 48cm, overall size 67cm x 80cm Handwritten artist's label verso Note: David M Graham lives and works in Scotland. He holds a Masters Degree from Edinburgh College of Art and a teaching qualification from Moray House School of Education. In addition to paintings he has lectured at Honours Degree level for most of his career but he has also enjoyed teaching short courses in visual communication and water colour painting. Working in a variety of mediums, at times, the imagery in David’s painting borders on abstraction while retaining intriguing yet recognisable elements that relate to the subject matter. The landscape provides the inspiration for much of his work, some of which is expressed in bold statements of colour and texture. David Graham is represented in a number of prominent art galleries in Scotland and England. His work is included in many private collections at home and abroad.

ink and watercolour on paper, signed mounted, framed and under glass image size 27cm x 37cm, overall size 41cm x 51cm Note: James Harrigan is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art where he studied Painting and Printmaking between 1956 and 1961. He was born in Ayr in 1937 and has continued to live in Ayrshire all his life. He taught Art for many years and was an inspiring teacher with many of his pupils going on themselves to develop successful careers as artists. In recent years James has spent time in the West Indies and in Brazil but he never tires of painting the landscape and coastline around his Ayrshire home and elsewhere in Scotland. He is known mainly as a landscape artist but his landscapes are almost invariably informed by a human presence and day to day activities, a sense of life being lived. This may be actual figures or it may be a suggestion of human life through buildings, gardens, boats.... He is an expressive painter working mainly in oils, using the rich, luscious quality of the paint to great effect. He exhibits widely and has work in many collections including those of the House of Lords, Glasgow University, P & O Cruises, Wigtownshire Education Trust and the Maclaurin Gallery. He is a past winner of the prestigious Laing Landscape Competition and the Scotsman Art Competition. In The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction of 10th November 2022, lot 52 "Girvan Harbour" a 48 x 58cm oil on board (dated 1998) by James Harrigan sold for £2200 (hammer). Since then "Sailing at Elie" a 50 x 75cm oil (by James Harrigan) sold in our auction of 13th December 2023 (lot 10) for £2400 (hammer) and in our 9th May 2024 auction lot 175 Summer Morning (View to Arran) a 51 x 77cm oil (by Harrigan) sold for £3000 (hammer).

watercolour on paper, signed, titled and inscribed (White Eared Pheasant, Red Panda, Polar and Dead Fish) mounted, framed and under glass image size 55cm x 45cm, overall size 79cm x 67cm Note: Glasgow School of Art graduate Janice Gray’s highly decorative, amusing and beautifully observed works combine birds, animals, fruit, handbags, high-heeled shoes, teacups with witty writing commenting various aspects and foibles of her real and imagined menagerie of animal characters and her collection of props. A long time observer and lover of animals, Janice worked for a period as Artist in Residence at Edinburgh Zoo. “I tend to choose my subject (usually animal) for their decorative quality which can be explored through the medium of watercolour and collage. I don’t normally know what the finished painting is going to look like, I don’t plan or do any preliminary sketches, I suppose it is a bit hit or miss! I like to start with one object then add as necessary, sometimes there is a link but normally there isn’t. The unlikely collections of objects in my work makes people think, making up their own links. I love to hear how differently my work is interpreted. My paintings are often described as ‘quirky’ which I like, as life is all too often a bit of a downer, so I enjoy creating daft paintings which can make people a wee bit cheerier!”

* RALSTON GUDGEON RSW (SCOTTISH 1910 - 1984), SCOTTISH WILDCAT watercolour on paper, signedmounted, framed and under glassimage size 49cm x 60cm, overall size 80cm x 93cmNote: Ralston Gudgeon was a Scottish artist, best known for painting birds and animals mostly in gouache watercolour. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 and won the Torrance Memorial Award of the Glasgow Institute. When Ralston Gudgeon was elected to the RSW in 1937, he became the youngest man ever to achieve that honour. In 2018, "The Scottish Wild Cat" by Gudgeon sold in our auction for £900 (hammer) which "signposted" a resurgence of collector interest in his work. This resurgence of buyer interest has continued unabated.

* EDWARD ASHTON CANNELL (BRITISH 1927 - 1994), AFTER RAIN ON THE THAMES watercolour on paper, signed, titled label versomounted, framed and under glassimage size 50cm x 75cm, overall size 72cm x 95cmNote: Edward Ashton Cannnell was born in Port Erin in the Isle of Man in 1927. He commenced his art training at the Isle of Man Art School and continued his studies at Liverpool College of Art. He was qualified as a teacher and had spent 20 years in the field of art education when in 1973 he decided to devote all his time to his painting. He was a member of the Langham Club, the London Sketch Club, the Art Club of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, the United Society of Artists. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a former chairman of the Arts Society of Paddington. He has carried out commissions for British Petroleum, Bass International, Foyles and Cassells. He exhibited regularly in London, including the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Society of British artists and the Royal Society of Marine Artists.

DAVID FULTON RSW (SCOTTISH 1848 - 1930), AT THE CLOSE OF THE DAY oil on canvas, signed, further signed and titled label verso framed (frame loose)image size 76cm x 63cm, overall size 107cm x 94cmHandwritten artist's label verso.Note: David Fulton is best known for his charming figurative paintings and landscapes, executed in a loose and broad manner with a mesmerizing colour palette. Fulton established an international reputation as a skilled painter of children and pastoral scenes. His subjects were depicted in rural settings, often woodland or pastures abundant with flora and fauna. Fulton was born in Parkhead in the East End of Glasgow, and showed great artistic ability from a young age. He studied painting at the Annfield Academy and later became a student at the prestigious Glasgow School of Art, where he won numerous awards for his paintings. Fulton exhibited at many principal galleries in Scotland and London from 1884 onwards. Fulton was one of the earliest members of the Glasgow Art Club. He was elected to the Royal Society of Watercolour Artists in 1891 and also exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy in London.

* MARION HARVEY (SCOTTISH 1886 - 1971), SPARK & MUFFIE pastel on paper, signed, titled in presentation plaqueframed and under glassimage size 55cm x 48cm, overall size 62cm x 54cm Note: Marion Rodger Hamilton Harvey was a very accomplished animal painter born in Ayr in 1886. She lived and worked in Glasgow and specialised in dog and horse painting. Marion often worked in Kirkcudbright and enjoyed close friendships with Hornel, Taylor and King and the four became known as the “Close Coterie”. She exhibited frequently at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, the Society of Women Artists, the Royal Scottish Society of Watercolour Painters as well as the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Her works are in many collections worldwide but most notably in the collections of HM The Queen and late Queen Mother. Her work occasionally surfaces at auction with the highest price recorded for a pastel by the artist of US$7000 (currently £5184).

* RALSTON GUDGEON RSW (SCOTTISH 1910 - 1984), PEEWIT watercolour on paper, signed, titled versomounted, framed and under glass (slipped in the mount)image size 31cm x 31cm, overall size 58cm x 68cmLabel verso: T. & R. Annan & Sons, Ltd., Glasgow.Note: Ralston Gudgeon was a Scottish artist, best known for painting birds and animals mostly in gouache watercolour. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 and won the Torrance Memorial Award of the Glasgow Institute. When Ralston Gudgeon was elected to the RSW in 1937, he became the youngest man ever to achieve that honour. In 2018, "The Scottish Wild Cat" by Gudgeon sold in our auction for £900 (hammer) which "signposted" a resurgence of collector interest in his work. This resurgence of buyer interest has continued unabated.

JOSEPH HENDERSON RSW (SCOTTISH 1832 - 1908) ROW BOAT COMING IN TO SHORE oil on board, signed and dated 1878framedimage size 50cm x 80cm, overall size 59cm x 88cmNote: Joseph Henderson was born on 10 June 1832 in Stanley, Perthshire, He was the third of four boys. When he was about six, the family moved to Edinburgh and took up residence in Broad Street. The two older boys joined their father, also Joseph, as stone masons. Joseph’s father died when Joseph was eleven leaving his mother, Marjory Slater, in straightened circumstances. As a result, Joseph and his twin brother, James, were sent to work at an early age and the thirteen-year-old Joseph was apprenticed to a draper/hosier. At the same time, he attended part-time classes at the Trustees’ Academy, Edinburgh. At the age of seventeen, on 2 February 1849, he enrolled as an art student in the Academy. From the census of 1851, Marjory, Joseph and James were living at 5 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh. Marjory was now a ‘lodging housekeeper’ with two medical students as boarders. James was a ‘jeweller’ while Joseph was a ‘lithographic drawer’. In the same year Joseph won a prize for drawing at the Academy enabling him, along with fellow students, W. Q. Orchardson, W. Aikman and W. G. Herdman, to travel to study the works of art at the Great Exhibition in London, which he found to be a very formative experience. He left the Academy about 1852-3 and settled in Glasgow. He is first mentioned in the Glasgow Post Office Directory for 1857-8 where he is listed as an artist living at 6 Cathedral Street. Joseph Henderson’s first exhibited work was a self-portrait which was shown at the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) in 1853. He painted several portraits of friends and local dignitaries including a half-length portrait of his friend John Mossman in 1861. His painting, The Ballad Singer established his reputation as one of Scotland`s foremost artists when exhibited at the RSA in 1866. Throughout his career he continued in portraiture. He executed portraits of James Paton (1897) a founder and superintendent of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (this portrait was bequeathed to Kelvingrove in 1933) and Alexander Duncan of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He also painted Mr. Scott Dickson, Sir Charles Cameron, Bart., DL, LLD (1897) and Sir John Muir, Lord Provost of Glasgow (1893). His portrait of councillor Alexander Waddell (1893) was presented to Kelvingrove in 1896. However, it is probably as a painter of seascapes and marine subjects that he became best known. His picture Where Breakers Roar attracted much attention when exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute (RGI) in 1874, ‘as a rendering of angry water’. Henderson was in part responsible for raising the profile and status of artists in Glasgow and was a member of the Glasgow Art Club (he was President in 1887-8), the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (founded 1861) and the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour. Between 1853 and 1892, he exhibited frequently at the RSA and at the RGI and between 1871 and 1886 he had twenty pictures accepted for the Royal Academy in London. In 1901 he was entertained at a dinner by the President and Council of the Glasgow Art Club to celebrate his jubilee as a painter. He was presented with a solid gold and silver palette. An inscription on the palette read: ‘Presented to Joseph Henderson, Esq., R.S.W. by fellow-members of the Art Club as a mark of esteem and a souvenir of his jubilee as a painter, 8th January 1901’ Joseph Henderson was married three times. On 8 January 1856 he married Helen Cosh (d. 1866) with whom he had four children including a daughter Marjory who became the second wife of the artist William McTaggart. On 30 September 1869 he married Helen Young (d. 1871) who bore him one daughter and in 1872 he married Eliza Thomson with whom he had two daughters and who survived him. Two of his sons, John (1860 – 1924) and Joseph Morris (1863 – 1936) became artists; John was Director of the Glasgow School of Art from 1918 to 1924. By 1871 he had moved with his family; wife Helen, daughter Marjory and sons James, John and Joseph and his mother Marjory from Cathedral Street to 183 Sauchiehall Street. He also employed a general servant. He is described in the census as a ‘portrait painter’. In 1881, Joseph was living at 5 La Belle Place, Glasgow with Eliza, two sons and four daughters. He later moved to 11 Blythswood Square, Glasgow. In the 1901 census he was still at this address with his wife Eliza, sons John and Joseph and daughter Mary and Bessie. His occupation is ‘portrait and marine painter’. Joseph Henderson painted many of his seascapes at Ballantrae in Ayrshire. At the beginning of July 1908, he again travelled to the Ayrshire coast. However, he succumbed to heart failure and died at Kintyre View, Ballantrae, on 17 July 1908 aged 76 and was buried in Sighthill cemetery in Glasgow. A commemorative exhibition of his works was held at the RGI in November of that year. A full obituary was published in the Glasgow Herald. As well as his devotion to art, Joseph Henderson was a keen angler and golfer. A contemporary account states that he was ‘frank and genial, with an inexhaustible fund of good spirits and a ready appreciation of humour, of which he himself possesses no small share’. Thirty-six of his paintings are held in UK public collections.

EDWARD FRANK SOUTHGATE RBA (BRITISH 1872 - 1916), SNIPE watercolour on paper, signed mounted, framed and under glass image size 30cm x 20cm, overall size 51cm x 40cm Note: Edward Frank Southgate RBA (1 August 1872 – 23 February 1916) was a British painter. He spent most of his life in Norfolk and concentrated on painting birds, especially waterfowl, and hunting scenes. He was a student at Bideford Art School and Cambridge School of Art. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. Southgate painted mainly birds and sporting scenes. His paintings of ducks and other birds in Patterson 1904 (for instance "The Stricken Mallard") were internationally renowned. Frank Southgate died in 1916, whilst serving in the Army during the First World War in France, aged 43 years.

* RALSTON GUDGEON RSW (SCOTTISH 1910 - 1984), MOORHENS oil on canvas, signedframed and under glassimage size 49cm x 60cm, overall size 66cm x 76cm Note: Ralston Gudgeon was a Scottish artist, best known for painting birds and animals mostly in gouache watercolour. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 and won the Torrance Memorial Award of the Glasgow Institute. When Ralston Gudgeon was elected to the RSW in 1937, he became the youngest man ever to achieve that honour. In 2018, "The Scottish Wild Cat" by Gudgeon sold in our auction for £900 (hammer) which "signposted" a resurgence of collector interest in his work. This resurgence of buyer interest has continued unabated.

* JAMES MCINTOSH PATRICK OBE RSA ROI (SCOTTISH 1907 - 1998), DRONLEY ROAD NEAR DRONLEY BRIDGE (BELOW BIRKHILL) watercolour on paper, signed, titled and dated 1991 label versomounted, framed and under glassimage size 36cm x 57cm, overall size 66cm x 86cmNote: After the war, Patrick returned to Dundee with his wife and family and began painting outdoors rather than in the studio which he had upstairs in his house. By the 1950's he had perfected his style and technique in outdoor landscape painting and began recording his beloved Angus countryside on canvas, working in all seasons and all weather conditions. His style was traditional and he didn't have much time for ''contemporary'' interpretations of landscape. ''The Tay Bridge from My Studio Window'', painted in 1947, is probably the best known of Patrick's works and illustrates the detailed style which he had finally decided upon as suiting his temperament best. He was elected a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1957. His reputation grew throughout the sixties and seventies and by the early eighties, he was a giant in the Scottish art world. James McIntosh Patrick was an exemplar in his life and work and imparted his knowledge freely. He was, without doubt, the most able landscape painter that Scotland has produced in the 20th century and stands on equal terms with most of Europe's best landscape painters of that era. Sixty of his pictures are held in UK public collections at many of the finest museums and galleries in the UK.

* EDWARD ASHTON CANNELL (BRITISH 1927 - 1994), ON THE RIVER watercolour on paper, signedmounted, framed and under glassimage size 53cm x 72cm, overall size 77cm x 94cmNote: Edward Ashton Cannnell was born in Port Erin in the Isle of Man in 1927. He commenced his art training at the Isle of Man Art School and continued his studies at Liverpool College of Art. He was qualified as a teacher and had spent 20 years in the field of art education when in 1973 he decided to devote all his time to his painting. He was a member of the Langham Club, the London Sketch Club, the Art Club of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, the United Society of Artists. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a former chairman of the Arts Society of Paddington. He has carried out commissions for British Petroleum, Bass International, Foyles and Cassells. He exhibited regularly in London, including the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Society of British artists and the Royal Society of Marine Artists.

ALEXANDER BROWNLIE DOCHARTY (SCOTTISH 1862 - 1940), FIELD AND FARM oil on canvas, signed, titled indistinctly versoframed and under glassimage size 41cm x 62cm, overall size 53cm x 73cm Note: Alexander Brownlie Docharty (1862–1940) was a Scottish painter, mainly in oils. He was the second son of Joseph Docharty and Elizabeth Brownlie. Joseph Docharty was a designer of calico prints; Alexander left school at the age of thirteen to join his father. He studied part-time at the Glasgow School of Art, attending Robert Greenlees' evening classes. In 1878 Docharty's watercolour On The Cart- Pollockshaws was exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. The Royal Academy accepted his painting Arran Cottages for exhibition in 1882. In the early 1880s Docharty was a designer for Inglis and Wakefield, a printing firm based at Busby. He left that firm some time before 1885, when he was based at James Docharty's studio in Bath Street, Glasgow. James was Alexander's uncle. Docharty moved to Paris in 1894 to study at the Academie Julien under Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. He subsequently lived at Kilkerran, Ayrshire. His Glen Falloch was exhibited in 1906 at the Glasgow Fine Arts Institute. Twenty-two of his paintings are held in UK public collections.

HENRY MOORE RA RBA RWS (BRITISH 1831 - 1895), UNLOADING THE CATCH oil on canvas, signed and dated 1872framedimage size 34cm x 59cm, overall size 44cm x 70cmNote: A member of a distinguished family of Yorkshire artists, Henry Moore rose to become one of the best marine painters of his day. Working in both oil and watercolour, he treated the sea ‘as a subject sufficient in itself, rather than simply the background of a battle, shipwreck, or even landscape’. Henry Moore was born at 14 Castlegate, York, on 7 March 1831, the tenth of fourteen children of the portrait painter, William Moore, and the second son by his second wife, Sarah Collingham. Four of his brothers were artists: Edwin Moore, William Moore Jr, John Collingham Moore and, most notably, the youngest, Albert Moore, a leading painter of the Aesthetic Movement. Henry Moore studied under his father before attending York School of Design, from 1851. Two years later, in 1853, he moved to London, where he joined his brother, John, in lodgings near Oxford Street, and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy, even before he entered the Royal Academy Schools at the end of the year. Indeed, while he remained at the RA Schools for only a few months, he continued to exhibit at the RA almost annually. In 1855, he also began to exhibit at the Society of British Artists, the British Institution and the Portland Gallery. He spent the summers of 1855 and 1856 painting the mountains of Servoz, near Chamonix, and first became known for producing Alpine as well as British landscapes in the Pre-Raphaelite manner. In 1857, a series of visits to Clovelly on the north Devon coast inspired Moore to turn to marine subjects, and especially panoramic vistas of the open sea, which he believed had not been fully achieved in painting before. In the decade or so following his marriage to Mary Bollans, of York, on 19 July 1860, he divided his time between landscapes and seascapes, and developed a reputation for his precise observation of the atmosphere and form of the sea. However, he gradually modified his style, employing broader handling and bolder colour. The evolution and increased mastery of his work were based on extended experience and careful study, made on board ship as well as from land. He was known to cross England in order to observe a bad storm. Though elected a member of the Society of British Artists in 1867, Moore resigned eight years later, at the time that he began to devote himself completely to seascapes. He exhibited these at a wider range of metropolitan venues, including the Dudley Gallery, the Grosvenor Gallery (founded in 1877) and the New Gallery (founded in 1888), and in the provinces. Elected to the membership of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours (ARWS 1876, RWS 1880) and the Royal Academy (ARA 1885, RA 1893), he was also awarded the grand prix at the Exposition Universelle, Paris (1889) and, as a result, the Légion d’honneur. In 1887, the Fine Art Society mounted a large solo show of his work, while he was represented alongside his father and brothers in an exhibition devoted to the Moore family of painters in York in 1895. For much of his career, Moore had lived in Sheffield Terrace, Kensington, and it was there that he and his wife brought up their two daughters, Agnes and Florence, the first of whom became a painter of flowers. However, late in the 1880s, they moved to 39 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead. Henry Moore died at the High Cliff Hotel, Margate, on 22 June 1895. His work is represented in numerous public collections, including the British Museum, Tate and the V&A; and Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Manchester Art Gallery and York Art Gallery.

* RALSTON GUDGEON RSW (SCOTTISH 1910 - 1984), SIAMESE CAT watercolour on paper, signedmounted, framed and under glassimage size 49cm x 63cm, overall size 79cm x 92cm Note: Ralston Gudgeon was a Scottish artist, best known for painting birds and animals mostly in gouache watercolour. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 and won the Torrance Memorial Award of the Glasgow Institute. When Ralston Gudgeon was elected to the RSW in 1937, he became the youngest man ever to achieve that honour. In 2018, "The Scottish Wild Cat" by Gudgeon sold in our auction for £900 (hammer) which "signposted" a resurgence of collector interest in his work. This resurgence of buyer interest has continued unabated.

ALEXANDER BROWNLIE DOCHARTY (SCOTTISH 1862 - 1940), EN PLEIN AIR watercolour on paper, signedframed and under glassimage size 14cm x 19cm, overall size 38cm x 43cm Note: Alexander Brownlie Docharty (1862–1940) was a Scottish painter, mainly in oils. He was the second son of Joseph Docharty and Elizabeth Brownlie. Joseph Docharty was a designer of calico prints; Alexander left school at the age of thirteen to join his father. He studied part-time at the Glasgow School of Art, attending Robert Greenlees' evening classes. In 1878 Docharty's watercolour On The Cart- Pollockshaws was exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. The Royal Academy accepted his painting Arran Cottages for exhibition in 1882. In the early 1880s Docharty was a designer for Inglis and Wakefield, a printing firm based at Busby. He left that firm some time before 1885, when he was based at James Docharty's studio in Bath Street, Glasgow. James was Alexander's uncle. Docharty moved to Paris in 1894 to study at the Academie Julien under Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. He subsequently lived at Kilkerran, Ayrshire. His Glen Falloch was exhibited in 1906 at the Glasgow Fine Arts Institute. Twenty-two of his paintings are held in UK public collections.

* RALSTON GUDGEON RSW (SCOTTISH 1910 - 1984), FIGHTING COCKERELS watercolour on paper, signedframed and under glassimage size 49cm x 60cm, overall size 66cm x 76cmNote: Ralston Gudgeon was a Scottish artist, best known for painting birds and animals mostly in gouache watercolour. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 and won the Torrance Memorial Award of the Glasgow Institute. When Ralston Gudgeon was elected to the RSW in 1937, he became the youngest man ever to achieve that honour. In 2018, "The Scottish Wild Cat" by Gudgeon sold in our auction for £900 (hammer) which "signposted" a resurgence of collector interest in his work. This resurgence of buyer interest has continued unabated.Condition of the picture is good overall, with no visible or known isssues.

* MARION HARVEY (SCOTTISH 1886 - 1971), TOWSER pastel on paper, signed and dated 1954, titled in the presentation plaqueframed and under glassimage size 45cm x 37cm, overall size 52cm x 44cm Note: Marion Rodger Hamilton Harvey was a very accomplished animal painter born in Ayr in 1886. She lived and worked in Glasgow and specialised in dog and horse painting. Marion often worked in Kirkcudbright and enjoyed close friendships with Hornel, Taylor and King and the four became known as the “Close Coterie”. She exhibited frequently at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, the Society of Women Artists, the Royal Scottish Society of Watercolour Painters as well as the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Her works are in many collections worldwide but most notably in the collections of HM The Queen and late Queen Mother. Her work occasionally surfaces at auction with the highest price recorded for a pastel by the artist of US$7000 (currently £5184).

* IAN FLEMING RSA RSW RGI (SCOTTISH 1906 - 1994), UNTITLED etching on paper, studio stamp verso, no. 161mounted, framed and under glass image size 37cm x 50cm, overall size 52cm x 62cm Provenance: the artist's studio sale.Note: Ian Fleming was born in Glasgow and studied drawing, painting and printmaking at Glasgow School of Art. After graduating, he worked with etcher Charles Murray, and then travelled on an art school scholarship to London, Paris and Spain. In 1931 Fleming started teaching at Glasgow School of Art. During this time he met William Wilson, with whom he exchanged print-making ideas. He served in the police and army during the second world war and continued sketching and printmaking throughout. Notable are the prints he made of the Glasgow blitz. After the war Fleming taught again at Glasgow School of Art and at Hospitalfield, Arbroath. At this time he moved towards painting, rather than print-making, producing landscapes, harbours and portraits both in oil and watercolour. Fleming was principal of Gray's School of Art between 1954 and 1971. He continued in printmaking after his retirement. He died at Aberdeen.

* EDWARD ASHTON CANNELL (BRITISH 1927 - 1994), HAZY SUNLIGHT watercolour on paper, signed, titled versomounted, framed and under glassimage size 36cm x 52cm, overall size 55cm x 70cmNote: Edward Ashton Cannnell was born in Port Erin in the Isle of Man in 1927. He commenced his art training at the Isle of Man Art School and continued his studies at Liverpool College of Art. He was qualified as a teacher and had spent 20 years in the field of art education when in 1973 he decided to devote all his time to his painting. He was a member of the Langham Club, the London Sketch Club, the Art Club of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, the United Society of Artists. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a former chairman of the Arts Society of Paddington. He has carried out commissions for British Petroleum, Bass International, Foyles and Cassells. He exhibited regularly in London, including the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Society of British artists and the Royal Society of Marine Artists.

* EDWARD ASHTON CANNELL (BRITISH 1927 - 1994), LONDON BRIDGE watercolour on paper, signedmounted, framed and under glassimage size 34cm x 51cm, overall size 54cm x 69cmNote: Edward Ashton Cannnell was born in Port Erin in the Isle of Man in 1927. He commenced his art training at the Isle of Man Art School and continued his studies at Liverpool College of Art. He was qualified as a teacher and had spent 20 years in the field of art education when in 1973 he decided to devote all his time to his painting. He was a member of the Langham Club, the London Sketch Club, the Art Club of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, the United Society of Artists. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a former chairman of the Arts Society of Paddington. He has carried out commissions for British Petroleum, Bass International, Foyles and Cassells. He exhibited regularly in London, including the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the Royal Society of British artists and the Royal Society of Marine Artists.

* RALSTON GUDGEON RSW (SCOTTISH 1910 - 1984), RED-BREASTED MERGANSER watercolour on paper, signed, titled and dated 1963 versoframed and under glassimage size 51cm x 62cm, overall size 59cm x 70cm Note: Ralston Gudgeon was a Scottish artist, best known for painting birds and animals mostly in gouache watercolour. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 and won the Torrance Memorial Award of the Glasgow Institute. When Ralston Gudgeon was elected to the RSW in 1937, he became the youngest man ever to achieve that honour. In 2018, "The Scottish Wild Cat" by Gudgeon sold in our auction for £900 (hammer) which "signposted" a resurgence of collector interest in his work. This resurgence of buyer interest has continued unabated.Condition of the picture is good overall, with no visible or known issues.

WILLIAM STEWART MACGEORGE RSA (SCOTTISH 1861 - 1934), THE SHORES OF THE DEE, NEAR SOLWAY oil on canvas, signed, titled label versoframedimage size 41cm x 51cm, overall size 58cm x 68cmLabel verso: Ian MacNicol, Glasgow.Note: William Stewart MacGeorge was born in King Street, Castle Douglas on 1 April 1861. Like his friend E A Hornel, he was the son of a shoe-maker. His father was David MacGeorge who, according to the 1861 census, was the employer of three men and a boy. He attended the Free Church School in Castle Douglas, where a fellow pupil was S R Crockett. Crockett included his childhood friends as characters in his 1894 novel The Raiders, and captures MacGeorge’s happy disposition in the character Jerry McWhirter, “a roguish fellow that came to me to help with my land surveying but was keener to draw with colours on paper, the hues of the landscape and the sea. But he was dearest to us because of his continual merry heart, which did us good like a medicine.” MacGeorge entered the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh in 1880 along with fellow Galloway boys E A Hornel and Thomas Bromley Blacklock. In 1881 MacGeorge and Crockett were lodging together at 50 St Leonard Street (Edinburgh). MacGeorge was a successful student being a prize-winner in his second and third years at art school, and had a work shown in the Royal Scottish Academy in 1881. In 1883 MacGeorge and Hornel enrolled in Antwerp’s Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts, where MacGeorge again excelled under the rigorous discipline of Charles Verlat. On his return to Scotland, he enrolled in the RSA Life Schools in Edinburgh, where he continued his studies and embarked on his professional career. Thereafter, MacGeorge divided his life largely between Edinburgh and Galloway. He lived at 11 Melville Place, Edinburgh during the winter and had a studio in Kirkcudbright in the summer. Works such as A Galloway Peat Moss, displayed in the National Gallery of Scotland, is a fine example of a plein air realist work showing the influence of Jules Bastien–Lepage on Scottish artists while his Halloween, shown at the RSA in 1893, and to which he returned in his diploma work of 1911, is an example of his interest in childhood rituals. The painting was well received when shown later that year at the Paris Salon. W S MacGeorge was the most naturalistic of the Galloway artists. Informal scenes of children at play are typical of his work. Another favourite subject was the salmon fishers and their nets on the Dee at Kirkcudbright. Commenting on the RSA exhibition of 1910 The Studio observed, “One of the outstanding landscapes is Mr W S MacGeorge’s view of salmon fishers at dusk drawing their nets in the estuary of the Kirkcudbright Dee”. Relatively late in his life, MacGeorge married Mabel Victoria Elliot, a watercolour painter and widow of the artist Hugh Munro and settled at Gifford near Haddington. Ninety-nine of William Stewart MacGeorge's paintings are held in UK Public Collections.

* IAN FLEMING RSA RSW RGI (SCOTTISH 1906 - 1994), UNTITLED etching on paper, studio stamp verso, no. 171mounted, framed and under glass image size 37cm x 50cm, overall size 61cm x 77cm Provenance: the artist's studio sale.Note: Ian Fleming was born in Glasgow and studied drawing, painting and printmaking at Glasgow School of Art. After graduating, he worked with etcher Charles Murray, and then travelled on an art school scholarship to London, Paris and Spain. In 1931 Fleming started teaching at Glasgow School of Art. During this time he met William Wilson, with whom he exchanged print-making ideas. He served in the police and army during the second world war and continued sketching and printmaking throughout. Notable are the prints he made of the Glasgow blitz. After the war Fleming taught again at Glasgow School of Art and at Hospitalfield, Arbroath. At this time he moved towards painting, rather than print-making, producing landscapes, harbours and portraits both in oil and watercolour. Fleming was principal of Gray's School of Art between 1954 and 1971. He continued in printmaking after his retirement. He died at Aberdeen.

WILLIAM JAMES MÜLLER (BRITISH 1812 - 1845), THE BIRDCATCHERS oil on canvas, signed and dated 1843framedimage size 46cm x 60cm, overall size 57cm x 72cmNote: William James Müller, also spelt Muller, was a British landscape and figure painter, the best-known artist of the Bristol School. Müller was born at Bristol, the son of J. S. Müller, a Prussian from Danzig, curator of a museum in Bristol. He first studied painting under James Baker Pyne. His early pictures were mostly of the scenery of Gloucestershire and Wales, and he learned much from his study of Claude, Ruysdael, and earlier landscape-painters. He witnessed the 1831 Bristol riots and recorded some of the scenes in a series of "raw and brilliant oil and watercolour sketches". In 1833 he exhibited at the Royal Academy for the first time, showing Destruction of Old London Bridge-Morning. The next year he made a tour through France, Switzerland and Italy. He visited the Middle East twice. The first visit was in 1838-39 when he visited Athens, and travelled onwards to Alexandria and Cairo, where he spent two weeks before continuing up the Nile to Luxor, where he made drawings of the ruins and landscapes before returning to Cairo in mid-January. Shortly after his return he left Bristol and settled in London, where he exhibited regularly. His scenes of Egyptian streets and market proved especially popular. His second visit was to Lycia in south west Turkey in 1843-44 when Charles Fellows was removing the Xanthus Marbles for the British Museum. His journey was at the request of the archaeologist Charles Fellows – but at his own expense – Müller and his pupil Harry Johnson accompanied the government expedition to Lycia. He spent three months sketching the landscape and local people around Xanthus, Pinara and Tlos. He spent most of the rest of his life, after his return to England, working on watercolours, and a few oils, of Lycian subjects. The work he carried out at Lycia is considered to be among his finest. In 1840 he again visited France, where he executed a series of sketches of Renaissance architecture, twenty-five of which were lithographed and published in 1841, in a folio entitled The Age of Francis I. of France. He died at Bristol on 8 September 1845.

* RALSTON GUDGEON RSW (SCOTTISH 1910 - 1984), GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER AND FLEDGELING watercolour on paper, signed, titled versomounted, framed and under glass (slipped in the mount)image size 49cm x 37cm, overall size 74cm x 59cm Note: Ralston Gudgeon was a Scottish artist, best known for painting birds and animals mostly in gouache watercolour. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 and won the Torrance Memorial Award of the Glasgow Institute. When Ralston Gudgeon was elected to the RSW in 1937, he became the youngest man ever to achieve that honour. In 2018, "The Scottish Wild Cat" by Gudgeon sold in our auction for £900 (hammer) which "signposted" a resurgence of collector interest in his work. This resurgence of buyer interest has continued unabated.

* RALSTON GUDGEON RSW (SCOTTISH 1910 - 1984), TWO DUCKS watercolour on paper, signedmounted, framed and under glassimage size 51cm x 59cm, overall size 62cm x 70cmNote: Ralston Gudgeon was a Scottish artist, best known for painting birds and animals mostly in gouache watercolour. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 and won the Torrance Memorial Award of the Glasgow Institute. When Ralston Gudgeon was elected to the RSW in 1937, he became the youngest man ever to achieve that honour. In 2018, "The Scottish Wild Cat" by Gudgeon sold in our auction for £900 (hammer) which "signposted" a resurgence of collector interest in his work. This resurgence of buyer interest has continued unabated.Condition is good overall, with no visible or known issues.

PATRICK DOWNIE RSW (SCOTTISH 1854 - 1945), SHIP DISTANT watercolour on paper, signedmounted, framed and under glassimage size 36cm x 53cm, overall size 57cm x 73cm Note: Born in Greenock in 1854, Patrick Downie started his working life as a van man and later a postman, before devoting himself and his life to art, embarking on a period of intense study first in this country and then in Paris. Despite early setbacks in his artistic career, Downie was an early contributor to the principal art exhibitions, including those of the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute and the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society. He also showed at exhibitions in Paris, Venice and elsewhere on the continent, being elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colour in 1905 . The first man from his home town to have a painting exhibited in the Royal Academy, Downie went on to win a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1901. He exhibited 16 works at the Royal Academy, 54 at the Royal Scottish Academy, 126 at the Royal Scottish Society of Artists in Water Colour, 133 at the Glasgow Institute and elsewhere. He died in 1945 aged 91 years.

* RALSTON GUDGEON RSW (SCOTTISH 1910 - 1984), GOLDEN EAGLE watercolour on paper, signedframed and under glassimage size 49cm x 59cm, overall size 65cm x 75cm Note: Ralston Gudgeon was a Scottish artist, best known for painting birds and animals mostly in gouache watercolour. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 and won the Torrance Memorial Award of the Glasgow Institute. When Ralston Gudgeon was elected to the RSW in 1937, he became the youngest man ever to achieve that honour. In 2018, "The Scottish Wild Cat" by Gudgeon sold in our auction for £900 (hammer) which "signposted" a resurgence of collector interest in his work. This resurgence of buyer interest has continued unabated.Condition of the picture is good overall, with no visible or known issues.

ALEXANDER BROWNLIE DOCHARTY (SCOTTISH 1862 - 1940), WINTER - THE GLEN oil on canvas, signed, titled versoframedimage size 70cm x 90cm, overall size 109cm x 126cmHandwritten artist's label verso.Note: Alexander Brownlie Docharty (1862–1940) was a Scottish painter, mainly in oils. He was the second son of Joseph Docharty and Elizabeth Brownlie. Joseph Docharty was a designer of calico prints; Alexander left school at the age of thirteen to join his father. He studied part-time at the Glasgow School of Art, attending Robert Greenlees' evening classes. In 1878 Docharty's watercolour On The Cart- Pollockshaws was exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. The Royal Academy accepted his painting Arran Cottages for exhibition in 1882. In the early 1880s Docharty was a designer for Inglis and Wakefield, a printing firm based at Busby. He left that firm some time before 1885, when he was based at James Docharty's studio in Bath Street, Glasgow. James was Alexander's uncle. Docharty moved to Paris in 1894 to study at the Academie Julien under Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. He subsequently lived at Kilkerran, Ayrshire. His Glen Falloch was exhibited in 1906 at the Glasgow Fine Arts Institute. Twenty-two of his paintings are held in UK public collections.

A late 19th/early 20th century large and impressive watercolour on silk painting, depicting 'One Hundred Children' playing games, signed top left, 51 x 142cm, framed and glazed.Condition Report: Good and bright in appearance.

A large collection of watercolours, an oil painting and prints, to include: watercolour and acrylic paintings by: Parker Hagarty, Jane A. Cooper, Sheppard, Barabara Ashton and Ruth Fisher; an oil painting signed M. Sheppard; A c.19th century engraving of The Hamilton vase and one other unsigned etching; together with a print after Salvador Dali (22)

QIAN HUI'AN (1833-1911), QING DYNASTY. Chinese watercolour painting on silk depicting a lady in a winter moonlit garden scene with a willow tree in front of a bamboo framed fence. Signed with inscription to top left. Framed and glazed mounted in silk border. Artwork 43cm x 31.5cm. Total frame size 59.5cm x 47.5cmProvenance: From a private local Bath collection Artwork in good overall condition with no major signs of damage. Exterior paper backing to frame torn.

* JAMES HARRIGAN (SCOTTISH b. 1937), HARBOUR ink and watercolour on paper, signedmounted, framed and under glassimage size 27cm x 37cm, overall size 41cm x 51cm Note: James Harrigan is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art where he studied Painting and Printmaking between 1956 and 1961. He was born in Ayr in 1937 and has continued to live in Ayrshire all his life. He taught Art for many years and was an inspiring teacher with many of his pupils going on themselves to develop successful careers as artists. In recent years James has spent time in the West Indies and in Brazil but he never tires of painting the landscape and coastline around his Ayrshire home and elsewhere in Scotland. He is known mainly as a landscape artist but his landscapes are almost invariably informed by a human presence and day to day activities, a sense of life being lived. This may be actual figures or it may be a suggestion of human life through buildings, gardens, boats.... He is an expressive painter working mainly in oils, using the rich, luscious quality of the paint to great effect. He exhibits widely and has work in many collections including those of the House of Lords, Glasgow University, P & O Cruises, Wigtownshire Education Trust and the Maclaurin Gallery. He is a past winner of the prestigious Laing Landscape Competition and the Scotsman Art Competition. In The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction of 10th November 2022, lot 52 "Girvan Harbour" a 48 x 58cm oil on board (dated 1998) by James Harrigan sold for £2200 (hammer). Since then "Sailing at Elie" a 50 x 75cm oil (by James Harrigan) sold in our auction of 13th December 2023 (lot 10) for £2400 (hammer) and in our 9th May 2024 auction lot 175 Summer Morning (View to Arran) a 51 x 77cm oil (by Harrigan) sold for £3000 (hammer).

* RALSTON GUDGEON RSW (SCOTTISH 1910 - 1984), FAMILY OF DEER watercolour on paper, signedframed and under glassimage size 44cm x 57cm, overall size 49cm x 62cm Note: Ralston Gudgeon was a Scottish artist, best known for painting birds and animals mostly in gouache watercolour. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 and won the Torrance Memorial Award of the Glasgow Institute. When Ralston Gudgeon was elected to the RSW in 1937, he became the youngest man ever to achieve that honour. In 2018, "The Scottish Wild Cat" by Gudgeon sold in our auction for £900 (hammer) which "signposted" a resurgence of collector interest in his work. This resurgence of buyer interest has continued unabated.Condition of the picture is good overall, with no visible or known issues.

* WILLIAM BIRNIE RSW RGI (SCOTTISH 1929 - 2006), LA CASA ROSA, LERICA oil on board, signed, titled label versoframed and under glass image size 12cm x 30cm, overall size 24cm x 42cm Handwritten artist's label versoNote: Bill Birnie studied at Glasgow School of Art under Gilbert Spencer and then at Hospitalfield under Ian Fleming. After graduating, he joined the staff at Hyndland Secondary School in 1952. That same year he was also elected a member of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA). In 1958, he became a founder member of the Glasgow Group and formed the Glasgow Group Society, of which he was Vice-President for 32 years. In 1965, he was elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW), a society of which he also became Vice-President and Treasurer. He became Principal Art Teacher at Douglas Academy, near Bearsden, and later at Gryffe High, near Kilbarchan. Bill's abilities not only as a teacher but also as an administrator were noticed by the Department of Education and he was soon appointed Head Examiner in Art for Scotland. He still managed to maintain a very active exhibiting schedule and showed in all the main public galleries and many of Scotland's best commercial galleries. His work was enthusiastically collected and increasingly sought after. He was elected a member of the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art (RGI) and of the Paisley Art Institute (PAI). In the early years, he painted from his garden, showing the village of Kilbarchan in its changing seasons, under a quiet blanket of winter snow, or framed in a blazing sunset through autumnal trees. Later visits to France and Italy with his artist wife, Cynthia Wall, whom he married in 1953, brought new subject matter, cafe scenes, vine groves, Italian clifftop villages, and the crumbling facades of palaces and churches of Venice. It was characteristic of the man that when told that his illness was terminal, he calmly put his affairs in order and started work for a final one-man show at the Open Eye Gallery (Edinburgh) the scene of so many of his successful shows. Unsurprisingly, the exhibition was a complete sell-out. In recent years there has been a widely acknowledged acceleration in the prices achieved at auctions around the UK for William Birnie's paintings. In the Scottish Contemporary Art Auction of 8th November 2020 lot 567 "The Red House" a 60 x 90cm oil sold for £3000 (hammer) which, not for the first time in recent years, set a new auction record for a painting by William Birnie.

* BILL WRIGHT RSW RGI DA (SCOTTISH 1931 - 2016), NIGHT TIME COAST WITH GULLS watercolour on paper, signedmounted, framed and under glassimage size 30cm x 42cm, overall size 54cm x 66cm Note: Bill Wright's talent first became evident when he was a boy, drawing endlessly for amusement while bedbound with illness. He went on to study painting at Glasgow School of Art and became an award-winning watercolourist, constantly inspired by was seascape and ever-changing sky on the Kintyre peninsula where he had a second home. Glasgow-born Wright, the son of a shipyard plater, was brought up in Partick and started his schooling at the city’s Dowanhill Primary before being evacuated to Dunoon during the Second World War. After returning home he attended Hyndland Senior Secondary and despite being discouraged by his parents, who would have preferred him to have a “proper job”, in 1949 he began his studies at Glasgow School of Art. They were interrupted by national service – a duty he felt hindered the progression of his art career. He served at Catterick army garrison but was a pacifist who abhorred war and dismissed the opportunity to be promoted to Sergeant as an army career held no interest. His first teaching post was at East Park School in Glasgow’s Maryhill. He then moved in 1965 to St Patrick’s High School in Dumbarton where he spent two years before becoming art adviser for the area at the age of 36. Over the next two decades he fostered the idea of instilling a cultural interest in art among pupils. He formed working groups to reform teaching of first and second-year students, encouraged forward-looking principal teachers and recruited many young teachers. His ethos was that teachers were not just there to create artists but to give all children a good art experience. He also established a residential art course for school children, at the Pirniehall residential educational facility at Croftamie in Dunbartonshire, where youngsters from different backgrounds could investigate the idea of furthering an art career through experiencing a range of different mediums in an art camp environment. And he is said to have been instrumental in encouraging the implementation of Scotland’s Standard Grade art and design qualification. However, he suffered from the chronic arthritic condition ankylosing spondylitis which, by the age of 55, forced him to take early retirement from his post in the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council. Meanwhile, as he had strived to enthuse youngsters with his own passion for art, he had been elected, in 1977, to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. A member of the Glasgow Arts Club for many years, he was also an elected member of the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and Paisley Art Institute, served as president of the Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association for 14 years and was a Scottish Arts Council lecturer, touring the country discussing art. But perhaps his own greatest inspiration was the view from a cottage he stumbled upon half a century ago, seven miles from Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre. He rented the property at Bellochantuy and set up a studio there where he drew on the vistas stretching 180 degrees, encompassing sea, beach, rocks and sky. He was utterly smitten by the area and was ultimately bequeathed the cottage by the owner who had become a close family friend. Over the years he came to know the area intimately and was fascinated by the constantly changing moods of the sea and light of the sky which formed the majority of his output. One large body of work, "Towards Islay", focused on the view from the back of the cottage. He captured the patterns and waves of the sea, sometimes adding a bird, limpit, mermaid’s purse, rock lines or some seaweed. But at times his works were very abstract and symbolic, concentrating on themes of nature and transience. He was hung in all the major shows in Scotland and in galleries across the country from Aberdeenshire to Edinburgh, Glasgow and south of the border. His work also features in public collections of Stirling and Strathclyde Universities, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and the Educational Institute of Scotland. And he was recognised with The Laing Prize for Landscape and Seascape and the RSW’s Sir William Gillies Award.

* RALSTON GUDGEON RSW (SCOTTISH 1910 - 1984), BUZZARD watercolour on paper, signedframed and under glassimage size 58cm x 48cm, overall size 73cm x 63cm Note: Ralston Gudgeon was a Scottish artist, best known for painting birds and animals mostly in gouache watercolour. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 and won the Torrance Memorial Award of the Glasgow Institute. When Ralston Gudgeon was elected to the RSW in 1937, he became the youngest man ever to achieve that honour. In 2018, "The Scottish Wild Cat" by Gudgeon sold in our auction for £900 (hammer) which "signposted" a resurgence of collector interest in his work. This resurgence of buyer interest has continued unabated.Condition is good overall, with no visible or known issues.

DOUGLAS LENNOX, PARKHOUSE FARM oil on board, signed and dated '24, titled versoframedimage size 57cm x 77cm, overall size 72cm x 92cm Note: Douglas Lennox was born in 1948 and was educated in Kilmarnock. He attended Glasgow School of Art 1966-70 and Jordanhill College of Education 1970-71. Early retirement from being Principal Teacher of Art and Design in Grange Academy in Kilmarnock means he can now concentrate full-time on painting. He now lives in Darvel in the Irvine Valley which has been the inspiration for much of his work. His work is predominantly made up of landscapes and seascapes in Ayrshire. The seascapes feature the marinas and harbours of the Scottish coast. The basis of his work is simply a continual fascination with what he sees. He works directly in front of the subject throughout the year as he feels that there is no substitute to being out there responding to changing light and seasons. His work is in a variety of media to suit conditions and subject - oil, watercolour, gouache and pastels. Duncan Shanks, who was one of his teachers at art school, was an early influence. The work of the Impressionists, The Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists are all constant influences.

* ANNE ANDERSON, PINK T SHIRT pastel on paper, signed, titled versomounted, framed and under glassimage size 45cm x 49cm, overall size 65cm x 68cm Note: Anne Anderson was born in Trinidad, educated in Scotland and studied at Glasgow School of Art. She has exhibited with the Royal Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, Royal Glasgow Institute, Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Paisley Institute, Visual Arts Society, The Discerning Eye, Pastel Society, London and many private galleries in Scotland and England. She is the winner of the Lauder Award - GSWA, Miller Award - Paisley Institute, Barclay Lennie Award - GSWA, John Green Award - Paisley Institute, Award for Best Painting by a Non Member - Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (twice) and Scottish Amicable Award - GSWA.

* JAMES S DAVIS DA PAI RSW FRSA (SCOTTISH b. 1944), O'ER THE HILLS TO ARDENTINNY oil on board, signed, titled verso mounted, framed and under glassimage size 45.5cm x 51cm, overall size 74cm x 77cmNote: James Davis was born in Scotland in 1944. He studied contemporary painting at the Glasgow School of Art between 1963 and 1967. He specialised in drawing and painting under the tutorage of Scottish artists William Armour and David Donaldson. For more than 40 years James Davis paintings have been exhibited extensively with the Royal Glasgow Institute ( RGI), Royal Scottish Watercolour Society (RSW), Royal Scottish Academy RSA and the Paisley Art Institute ( PAI). James Davis was elected to the RSW in 2003. James Davis paintings are predominantly landscapes, figurative and portraits and he paints in both watercolours and oils. Davis has been the recipient of many art awards for his contemporary paintings including the David Cargill Award; RGI in 2003 and the Reid Kerr Painting Award in 2005. James has established a strong following with leading private and corporate art collectors of contemporary Scottish art. These include: HRH The Duke of Edinburgh; The Royal Collection; Holyrood Palace; King Hussein Family Private collection; Vatican Commission Scott's College Rome; Glasgow City Chambers; Merk Finance; Arisaig Holdings (Singapore) and Strathclyde Education Authorities. His paintings also feature in many private contemporary art collections in the UK, Canada, USA, Italy, Holland, France, Switzerland, Australia and Tasmania.

* JONATHAN HOOD (SCOTTISH b. 1957), DANCERS oil on board, signed, titled and dated 2006 versoframedimage size 48cm x 46cm, overall size 65cm x 62cm Note: Jonathan Hood was born in 1957 in Edinburgh, and grew up in Fife and Tayside. He was artistically trained at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. Jonathan became a full time painter in 1986, mostly working in watercolour and collage. He is a keen art teacher, regularly running children’s workshops as well as adult night-classes. In 2006, he conducted a collage and painting workshop in Morgan Academy, Dundee for the Racial Equality Commission enabling 2 school pupils to reach the final. Since 2006, Jonathan has also run the WASPS studio open weekend in Dundee. Currently, Jonathan is working mostly in oil, using bright colours and painting on board. He has been exhibiting regularly in galleries around the UK, and in Holland, France and Italy. Jonathan uses dramatic blocks of colour to create depth and texture within his works. His clever compositions create narratives through the interaction between figures, and the addition of carefully selected props to be interpreted by the viewer. It is a testament to his artistic skill that he can convey strong emotion with only the simplest of brushstrokes to represent facial features.

DOUGLAS LENNOX, SALEM YACHT CLUB oil on board, signed and dated '14framedimage size 41cm x 51cm, overall size 57cm x 67cm Note: Douglas Lennox was born in 1948 and was educated in Kilmarnock. He attended Glasgow School of Art 1966-70 and Jordanhill College of Education 1970-71. Early retirement from being Principal Teacher of Art and Design in Grange Academy in Kilmarnock means he can now concentrate full-time on painting. He now lives in Darvel in the Irvine Valley which has been the inspiration for much of his work. His work is predominantly made up of landscapes and seascapes in Ayrshire. The seascapes feature the marinas and harbours of the Scottish coast. The basis of his work is simply a continual fascination with what he sees. He works directly in front of the subject throughout the year as he feels that there is no substitute to being out there responding to changing light and seasons. His work is in a variety of media to suit conditions and subject - oil, watercolour, gouache and pastels. Duncan Shanks, who was one of his teachers at art school, was an early influence. The work of the Impressionists, The Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists are all constant influences.

DOUGLAS LENNOX, ROAD TO BLOOMSHOLM oil on board, signed and dated '23, titled versoframedimage size 56cm x 66cm, overall size 72cm x 82cm Note: Douglas Lennox was born in 1948 and was educated in Kilmarnock. He attended Glasgow School of Art 1966-70 and Jordanhill College of Education 1970-71. Early retirement from being Principal Teacher of Art and Design in Grange Academy in Kilmarnock means he can now concentrate full-time on painting. He now lives in Darvel in the Irvine Valley which has been the inspiration for much of his work. His work is predominantly made up of landscapes and seascapes in Ayrshire. The seascapes feature the marinas and harbours of the Scottish coast. The basis of his work is simply a continual fascination with what he sees. He works directly in front of the subject throughout the year as he feels that there is no substitute to being out there responding to changing light and seasons. His work is in a variety of media to suit conditions and subject - oil, watercolour, gouache and pastels. Duncan Shanks, who was one of his teachers at art school, was an early influence. The work of the Impressionists, The Glasgow Boys and the Scottish Colourists are all constant influences.

* DAVID M GRAHAM, RHUM AND EIGG FROM ARISAIG watercolour on paper, signed, titled versomounted, framed and under glass image size 34cm x 48cm, overall size 67cm x 80cm Handwritten artist's label versoNote: David M Graham lives and works in Scotland. He holds a Masters Degree from Edinburgh College of Art and a teaching qualification from Moray House School of Education. In addition to paintings he has lectured at Honours Degree level for most of his career but he has also enjoyed teaching short courses in visual communication and water colour painting. Working in a variety of mediums, at times, the imagery in David’s painting borders on abstraction while retaining intriguing yet recognisable elements that relate to the subject matter. The landscape provides the inspiration for much of his work, some of which is expressed in bold statements of colour and texture. David Graham is represented in a number of prominent art galleries in Scotland and England. His work is included in many private collections at home and abroad.

* RALSTON GUDGEON RSW (SCOTTISH 1910 - 1984), WIGEONS IN FLIGHT watercolour on paper, signedmounted, framed and under glassimage size 49cm x 60cm, overall size 76cm x 86cm Note: Ralston Gudgeon was a Scottish artist, best known for painting birds and animals mostly in gouache watercolour. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 and won the Torrance Memorial Award of the Glasgow Institute. When Ralston Gudgeon was elected to the RSW in 1937, he became the youngest man ever to achieve that honour. In 2018, "The Scottish Wild Cat" by Gudgeon sold in our auction for £900 (hammer) which "signposted" a resurgence of collector interest in his work. This resurgence of buyer interest has continued unabated.

* JOHN WATLING (BRITISH b. 1943) THE STORR FROM THE QUIRRAING, SKYE watercolour on paper, signed, titled versomounted, framed and under glass image size 31cm x 41cm, overall size 49cm x 58cm Label verso: Hanover Fine Arts, EdinburghNote: John Watling was born in Manchester, England in 1943. He is a graduate of Leeds College of Art. In 1965 John was founder member of Leeds 'Sweet Street Group' - bringing art into industry. He exhibited in the Leeds City Art Gallery (one man show) and The Austin Hayes Gallery in York in 1967 and 1968. After teaching art for two years he left Leeds and moved to Newcastle upon Tyne where he became a freelance illustrator for the Sunday Sun Newspaper. From 1971 he found himself involved with the Entertainment Industry on the management side. This carried him over to Australia where he also exhibited paintings in Sydney between 1972 and 1974. He returned to England and Newcastle upon Tyne where he worked in promoting and organising Arts Festivals and exhibiting locally. In 1984 he returned to teaching art. In 1989 he went on holiday to the West coast of Scotland and the Republic of Ireland. This began a love affair resulting with a period of painting which still continues to this day. He exhibits frequently in Edinburgh and since 2000 in London's West End. John Watling's paintings are landscapes of the West of Scotland and Ireland. The Scottish paintings are mainly of the island of Iona where he finds inspiration for the almost Celtic strata of the rocks against the white sands and the oddly shaped islands off the coast. The paintings have a surreal look about them, which he says reflects his feelings about the island. His paintings of the West Coast of Ireland are mostly of the Aran Islands off the coast of Galway which to him have a timeless feel about them. His main interest is in the dry stonewalls which cover the islands like an enormous maze. His paintings are in oil and watercolour. He paints mainly in his studio from sketches and photographs rather than in 'situ'. This is because of the frequent light changes which can alter by the minute in the areas where he draws inspiration from. He is a prolific painter and has a large number of admirers and investors throughout the British Isles. He has paintings which are in collections in Britain, Ireland, USA, Europe, Australia and Canada.

* BILL WRIGHT RSW RGI DA (SCOTTISH 1931 - 2016), PEACEFUL DAY ACROSS FROM JURA watercolour on paper, signed, titled versomounted, framed and under glassimage size 30cm x 43cm, overall size 55cm x 66cm Note: Bill Wright's talent first became evident when he was a boy, drawing endlessly for amusement while bedbound with illness. He went on to study painting at Glasgow School of Art and became an award-winning watercolourist, constantly inspired by was seascape and ever-changing sky on the Kintyre peninsula where he had a second home. Glasgow-born Wright, the son of a shipyard plater, was brought up in Partick and started his schooling at the city’s Dowanhill Primary before being evacuated to Dunoon during the Second World War. After returning home he attended Hyndland Senior Secondary and despite being discouraged by his parents, who would have preferred him to have a “proper job”, in 1949 he began his studies at Glasgow School of Art. They were interrupted by national service – a duty he felt hindered the progression of his art career. He served at Catterick army garrison but was a pacifist who abhorred war and dismissed the opportunity to be promoted to Sergeant as an army career held no interest. His first teaching post was at East Park School in Glasgow’s Maryhill. He then moved in 1965 to St Patrick’s High School in Dumbarton where he spent two years before becoming art adviser for the area at the age of 36. Over the next two decades he fostered the idea of instilling a cultural interest in art among pupils. He formed working groups to reform teaching of first and second-year students, encouraged forward-looking principal teachers and recruited many young teachers. His ethos was that teachers were not just there to create artists but to give all children a good art experience. He also established a residential art course for school children, at the Pirniehall residential educational facility at Croftamie in Dunbartonshire, where youngsters from different backgrounds could investigate the idea of furthering an art career through experiencing a range of different mediums in an art camp environment. And he is said to have been instrumental in encouraging the implementation of Scotland’s Standard Grade art and design qualification. However, he suffered from the chronic arthritic condition ankylosing spondylitis which, by the age of 55, forced him to take early retirement from his post in the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council. Meanwhile, as he had strived to enthuse youngsters with his own passion for art, he had been elected, in 1977, to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. A member of the Glasgow Arts Club for many years, he was also an elected member of the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and Paisley Art Institute, served as president of the Scottish Artists’ Benevolent Association for 14 years and was a Scottish Arts Council lecturer, touring the country discussing art. But perhaps his own greatest inspiration was the view from a cottage he stumbled upon half a century ago, seven miles from Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre. He rented the property at Bellochantuy and set up a studio there where he drew on the vistas stretching 180 degrees, encompassing sea, beach, rocks and sky. He was utterly smitten by the area and was ultimately bequeathed the cottage by the owner who had become a close family friend. Over the years he came to know the area intimately and was fascinated by the constantly changing moods of the sea and light of the sky which formed the majority of his output. One large body of work, "Towards Islay", focused on the view from the back of the cottage. He captured the patterns and waves of the sea, sometimes adding a bird, limpit, mermaid’s purse, rock lines or some seaweed. But at times his works were very abstract and symbolic, concentrating on themes of nature and transience. He was hung in all the major shows in Scotland and in galleries across the country from Aberdeenshire to Edinburgh, Glasgow and south of the border. His work also features in public collections of Stirling and Strathclyde Universities, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and the Educational Institute of Scotland. And he was recognised with The Laing Prize for Landscape and Seascape and the RSW’s Sir William Gillies Award.

* HAZEL NAGL RSW RGI PAI (SCOTTISH b. 1953), BOUQUET mixed media on board, signed, titled versomounted, framed and under glassimage size 29cm x 25cm, overall size 54cm x 50cm Note: Hazel Nagel is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art, where she studied Drawing and Painting. Following graduation, she lived and worked at the Art School’s workshop at Culzean Castle where she developed an interest in landscape painting in response to the varied and dramatic surroundings. She is widely known for her still life and landscape paintings, her preoccupations being imparting a sense of space and light and an expressive impulse. She handles watercolour superbly, layering veils of translucent colour through her work. In 1988 she was elected to the RSW and to the RGI in 2000. She has won a number of awards including the RGI - Sir Alexander Stone Prize, RGI - Mabel Mackinlay Award, RGI - Eastwood Publications Award, SAAC Prize, PAI Prize, 1st Prize Laing Competition. She exhibits widely and has work in a number of Public Collections including The Fleming Collection (London), The Royal Bank of Scotland, Glasgow University, Common Market Enterprises, Combined Capital and Scottish & Newcastle Breweries.

* GEORGE ALEXANDER EUGENE DOUGLAS HAIG, THE EARL HAIG OBE RSA (SCOTTISH 1918 - 2009), DRONNE NEAR LA BARIE watercolour on paper, signed, titled label versomounted, framed and under glass image size 37cm x 54cm, overall size 48cm x 65cm Exhibition label verso: Earl Haig - New Paintings 10 July - 7 August 1993, The Scottish Gallery, EdinburghComment: a spectacular and large example with prestigious documented exhibition provenance.Note: Earl Haig (son of the Field Marshall) started painting as a prisoner of war. The paintings and drawings he made in Colditz Castle were exhibited at The Scottish Gallery in 1945 in an exhibition attended by HM The Queen. He went on to train under Victor Pasmore and Lawrence Gowing at Camberwell School of Art, London when fellow Scot William Johnstone was Principal. He had a distinguished exhibiting career primarily with The Scottish Gallery which spanned over six decades, concluding with his remarkable 90th birthday show in 2008. However, the same prestigious Edinburgh Gallery staged a Memorial show for Haig in 2011 and a major centenary show in 2018. In 2020 another solo show was staged (November - December 2020) by The Scottish Gallery focussing on examples from the Scottish Borders and Italy, where he spent an increasing amount of time from the mid-1970s. Earl Haig's work was shown widely elsewhere in Britain and on the continent, latterly including Clarges Gallery and Gallery 10, London. His work held in the collections of HM The Queen and other members of the Royal family, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and further public and notable corporate collections. Earl Haig was a member of the Scottish Arts Council and of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland and a Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland. As a landscape painter he was fond of simple, almost naïve images infused with a rich palette. Lived in Bemersyde, Melrose, Scotland.

* RON LAWSON, SOUTH UIST CROFT watercolour and gouache on paper, initialled, titled labels versomounted, framed and under glassimage size 11.5cm x 88cm, overall size 34cm x 121cmLabel verso: Atholl Gallery, Dunkeld.Note 1: A rare auction appearance for a work by one of Scotland's most collected artists of recent years.Note 2: Based in Perthshire, Ron Lawson is widely regarded as one of Scotland's most original and distinctive contemporary landscape painters. His unique and instantly recognisable style has met with an extraordinary response throughout the UK and abroad, where his works of the Scottish Islands and the Highlands are enthusiastically collected. Born in 1960, Ron spent his early years on a farm in Mid-Lothian, Scotland before a career took him to the art studio of publishers DC Thomson in Dundee, where he progressively developed the dynamic and highly individual palette and technique that is central to his work today. With a passion for dramatic and sparsely populated locations, Ron has spent many years exploring and capturing the wild remoteness and majesty of the Outer Hebrides and Scottish Highlands. In 2010, after 34 years, Ron left his career to concentrate his time fully on painting. His remarkable, contemporary Scottish landscapes appeal to an international audience, and are included in private collections worldwide. Ron exhibits regularly throughout the UK, United States, Singapore and Hong Kong.

* DANNY FERGUSON RSW RGI (SCOTTISH 1925 - 1993), AUTUMN LOCH oil on board, signed, titled label versoframed and under glassimage size 31cm x 31cm, overall size 44cm x 44cm Note: Danny Ferguson was educated at Airdrie Academy from 1936-1942. He was an athletic youngster, playing football for (amongst others) Baillieston Juniors, Bedlay Juniors, Douglas Water Thistle and Blantyre Victoria (taking over the centre-half position from Jock Stein). Later in life, he was a keen snooker player, frequently championing the Glasgow Art Club, and enjoyed Curling. He began studying at GSA in 1941 but his studies were interrupted when he was called up. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1943 and served in the Far East. He re-joined GSA in 1947 and was awarded his diploma in Drawing and Painting in 1949. That same year he won a £30 prize at the Royal Scottish Academy annual competitions. From 1949-1950 he attended the Jordanhill Teacher Training College. He later combined a position as visiting lecturer at GSA with teaching in various Glasgow Schools. He returned to GSA as a full-time lecturer in 1968. In 1958 Ferguson married Margaret Dunn, also a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, in Embroidery and Weaving. They had two children, Anne and David. Probably best known for his landscapes, still lifes and self-portraits. He exhibited regularly, had numerous one-man shows, and his work still hangs in many collections, including the Royal Collection. Danny Ferguson was elected a member of the RSW in 1969, having exhibited there from 1961. He had over 88 works exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute, from 1957. He was a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour. Ferguson also served as honorary secretary of the RGI for nine years and was also elected President of the Glasgow Art Club.

* RONNIE RUSSELL, ARRAN FROM THE AYRSHIRE COAST oil on canvas, signed, titled label versoframed and under glass image size 23cm x 46cm, overall size 38cm x 60cm Handwritten label versoNote: Ronnie Russell was born in Aberdeen but has lived most of his life in Troon. After spending about twenty-four years in textile design, Ronnie became a full-time artist and cartoonist, specialising in personalised birthday, anniversary and special event cards. He also paints colourful Scottish landscapes, working in acrylic and watercolour mediums. He exhibits his work in several galleries throughout Scotland, such as the Riverside Gallery in Inverness, the Heinzel Gallery in Aberdeen, and the Framework Gallery in his home town of Troon. Ronnie is also a regular exhibitor in the 'Save The Children' exhibition at the Maclaurin Art Gallery in Ayr and the Pitlochry Theatre Art Gallery. His work may be found in many private collections around the globe, including a painting in the collection of The House Of Lords in London. He is also known locally as a comic raconteur, performing his comedic cartoon talks in various venues.

* PERPETUA POPE DA Edin (SCOTTISH 1916 - 2013), SUTHERLAND LOCHAN watercolour on paper, signed, titled label verso mounted, framed and under glass image size 36cm x 48cm, overall size 60cm x 70cm Exhibition label verso: Perpetua Pope, 90th Birthday Exhibition, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 9 September - 4 October 2006. Note: Perpetua (Pip) Pope (29 May 1916 – 31 May 2013) was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flower pieces and still-life compositions in both oil and watercolours, and was also an art teacher in Edinburgh. Born in Solihull, England, to Scottish parents, Pope's family moved to rural Aberdeenshire when she was still a young child. Her father was a businessman and keen art collector, from whom she inherited a number of significant works such as one of Samuel Peploe's Iona paintings. Pope attended Albyn School in Aberdeen, and then commenced study at Edinburgh College of Art in 1936. Her studies were interrupted by World War II, during which time she served with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. In 1946 Pope resumed her studies at Edinburgh College of Art, then undertook teacher training at Moray House. Pope held several teaching posts in primary and private schools, including Lansdowne House in Edinburgh and the role of art mistress at Oxenfoord Castle School, Midlothian. Pope took up a post as art lecturer at Moray House in the mid-1960s, which she held until her early retirement in 1973. Upon retirement from teaching, Pope concentrated on painting at her home, Weaver's Cottage in Carlops. She is linked to The Edinburgh School of artists, having studied under Sir William Gillies at Edinburgh College of Art and formed friendships with fellow artists such as Joan Eardley. Like many artists of the Edinburgh School, Pope worked in both oil and watercolour. She primarily painted still life and landscapes. Her work was heavily inspired by the Aberdeenshire landscapes of her youth, but she also travelled frequently both within Scotland and Europe, notably Cyprus, Lebanon, the Peloponnese and Spain, looking for inspiration. Pope exhibited at the Royal Academy (London), with the Royal Scottish Academy frequently from 1942 when her address was Hay Lodge, East Trinity Road, Edinburgh and had a series of solo shows at The Scottish Gallery from 1956. Explaining her intentions in painting the Scottish landscape, Pope said in 2008: I have tried to paint the intense pleasure I get from being in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. I don't want to paint views particularly, it's more the feeling of freedom - the changing light, the subtle colour of the countryside, the sand blown by the wind, the wild flowers, the machair and the sand dunes and always the feeling of space and air. — Perpetua Pope.The Scottish Gallery (Edinburgh) stated in their "Perpetua Pope: Painter & Collector" exhibition catalogue 4 - 30 April 2014: When someone attains a good age, and Perpetua Pope had just celebrated her 97th birthday when she died in May 2013, there are perhaps few to mourn; peers have passed away and the world has contracted. Not so for Perpetua; she was a conscientious friend with a warmth and openness that attracted all, regardless of age or profession. She was a painter and many artists are numbered among her friends. To these she was generous, even deferential, and she admired and collected many others’ paintings, as this exhibition amply illustrates. She worked in oil and watercolour, like many of the Edinburgh School, dividing her energies between the two media, never letting herself become stale or lapse into repetition. This memorial exhibition, featuring her work and her collection pays tribute to one of the most enduring and warmest personalities in the Scottish art world.

* RALSTON GUDGEON RSW (SCOTTISH 1910 - 1984), PHEASANT watercolour on paper, signedmounted, framed and under glassimage size 51cm x 62cm, overall size 76cm x 88cm Note: Ralston Gudgeon was a Scottish artist, best known for painting birds and animals mostly in gouache watercolour. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 and won the Torrance Memorial Award of the Glasgow Institute. When Ralston Gudgeon was elected to the RSW in 1937, he became the youngest man ever to achieve that honour. In 2018, "The Scottish Wild Cat" by Gudgeon sold in our auction for £900 (hammer) which "signposted" a resurgence of collector interest in his work. This resurgence of buyer interest has continued unabated.