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Still Life With Purple Tulips And A Figurine

Collection: Gray's School of Art Collection
Object Type: Painting: Still Life
Artist/Maker: Souter, John Bulloch
Media/Materials: oil on board
Dimensions: overall: 32.8 cm x 30 cm

Description:

A representational still life composition featuring a blue vase containing pink and purple tulips and a figurine, with an olive green drape in the background.


John Bulloch Souter was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and restorer. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland where he studied at Gray’s School of Art. A travelling scholarship allowed him to visit the continent, where he was much impressed by Velazquez, Chardin and Vermeer. After serving in the Royal Medical Corps during World War I, he soon married and moved to London. It was during this post-war period that he made his name as a portrait painter; his subjects included such personalities as Ivor Novello, Gladys Cooper and Fay Compton.

Souter was a successful portrait and figure painter and later began to produce landscape and still-life. He exhibited at Redfern Gallery, the Fine Art Society, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy, where his notorious painting "The Breakdown" was shown in 1926. During World War II he worked in the Censorship Department as a translator whilst also restoring paintings at Windsor Castle. He returned to Aberdeen in 1952, where he remained.
Object Number: ABDRG2007.211