1. 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.
10 Facts About Samuel Peploe
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Samuel Peploe left school at 14 and was initially apprenticed as a trainee lawyer to Scott, Bruce and Glover WS at 1 Hill Street in Edinburgh.
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Samuel Peploe studied at the Royal Scottish Academy schools from 1893 to 1894, and then at the Academie Julian and Academie Colarossi in Paris, where he shared a room with the Scottish painter Robert Brough.
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Samuel Peploe visited the Netherlands in 1895, returning with reproductions of work by Rembrandt and Frans Hals.
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Samuel Peploe was persuaded by his dealers to revert to his original style.
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In 1910, Samuel Peploe married Margaret MacKay, whom he had known since 1894.
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Samuel Peploe moved to Paris in 1910, a period which saw him concentrate increasingly on still life and landscape painting.
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Not until December 1915 did Samuel Peploe have his second one-man-show: organised by the dealer Alexander Reid at his St Vincent Street Gallery in Glasgow.
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Samuel Peploe was strongly influenced by French painting throughout his life.
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Samuel Peploe is buried in the family plot in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.