The Colourist Tradition at The Fleming Collection

During the last quarter of the 19th and the first quarter of the 20th century Scottish artists looked to Paris, not London, for inspiration. The work of the French impressionists and of Cezanne, Matisse and the fauves was a great influence on them, much more so than their English contemporaries. This was particularly true of four painters - Samuel John Peploe (1871-1935), Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883-1937), George Leslie Hunter (1877-1931) and John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961) - who later became known as the Scottish colourists.