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Peploe Artist Biography

Peploe was born at 39 Manor Place, Edinburgh on 27 January 1871, the son of Robert Luff Peploe, Secretary of the Commercial Bank Edinburgh, and his second wife Anne Watson. After the death of his father, Peploe’s guardians tried to persuade him to pursue a career in the army; the idea did not appeal and so he instead entered a law firm. Unsatisfied with the prospect of a career in the law, in 1893 Peploe enrolled as a student in the Trustees’ Academy, Edinburgh. The aspiring artist however did not find the conservative climate of the Trustees’ Academy sufficiently stimulating and left for Paris, where he attended classes at various academies and ateliers including the Academie Julien and the Academie Colarossi. Peploe returned to Edinburgh around 1897 where he embarked on a successful career as a landscape, still life and figure painter.

In Edinburgh Peploe met fellow artist J. D. Fergusson and, through a combination of personal friendship and similar artistic interests, including a shared admiration for the art of Whistler, the Glasgow Boys and French p

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S. J. Peploe was the eldest of the Scottish Colourist painters that also included F. C. B. Cadell, J. D. Fergusson and G. L. Hunter. They were known for their bright colour and interest in line and form, influenced by French Post-Impressionist art. They first exhibited together as group in Paris in 1924, although the term ‘The Scottish Colourists’ was not coined until 1948, after all but Fergusson had died.

Peploe was born in Edinburgh, the third son of a banker. His mother, his father’s second wife, died when he was only three, and then his father died when he was 12 or 13, leaving Peploe and his two siblings orphans. The trustees of his father’s estate tried to push him into a career in law or the church, but eventually gave up and allowed him to follow his chosen profession as an artist, studying at Edinburgh School of Art, and then in Paris at the Académie Julien and Académie Colarossi, where he won a silver medal in 1894.

Peploe held his first solo exhibition in Edinburgh 1903. In 1910 he was persuaded to join Fergusson in Paris wher

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Samuel John Peploe

Samuel John Peploe RSA was born at 39 Manor Place, Edinburgh on 27 January 1871, the son of Robert Luff Peploe, Secretary of the Commercial Bank Edinburgh, and his second wife Anne Watson. After the death of his father, Peploe’s guardians tried to persuade him to pursue a career in the army; the idea did not appeal and so he instead entered a law firm.

Education & Early Life

Unsatisfied with the prospect of a career in the law, in 1893 Peploe enrolled as a student in the Trustees’ Academy, Edinburgh. The aspiring artist however did not find the conservative climate of the Trustees’ Academy sufficiently stimulating and left for Paris, where he attended classes at various academies and ateliers including the Academie Julien and the Academie Colarossi. Peploe returned to Edinburgh around 1897 where he embarked on a successful career as a landscape, still life and figure painte and was given his first one man show at the Scottish Gallery in 1901.

In Edinburgh Peploe met fellow artist John Duncan Fergusson and, through a combination of personal friends