A delicate and exact etching of the Hermitage of the Virgin del Puerto on the river Manzanares in Spain. The artist has signed both in plate and to the lower edge of the plate line and inscribed and numbered (10) to the lower left edge.
The print has been presented in a thin black frame with glazing and an embossed wash-line mount. There is a label at the reverse written by the artist with the print's location, date and artist's name.
On wove.The condition is typical for a picture of this age including discolouration. The mount has been discoloured, particularly around the outer edges. The frame has minor, light scuffing.
20 x 24cm (7.9" x 9.4")
John "Jack" Bulloch Souter (4 June 1890 – 10 May 1972)Born in Aberdeen in northeast Scotland, he was a skilled pupil at Ferryhill School, then Gray's School of Art, and then the Allan Fraser School in Arbroath. He won the Byrne Travelling Scholarship awarded by the Scottish Education Department which enabled him to comfortably tour the European continent. During this continental tour, he was purportedly much impressed by Diego Velázquez, Johannes Vermeer, and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin.
Souter exhibited his creations at Redfern Gallery, the Fine Art Society, Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition where his notorious painting The Breakdown was exhibited in 1926 to great controversy. Within days of its exhibition, the British Colonial office contacted the Royal Academy and demanded the immediate removal of the picture as a perceived threat to the British empire. Following negative attacks in the national and world press, Souter's wife convinced him to destroy the painting—his greatest work—which he reluctantly assented to do, but he clandestinely retained his preparatory drawings.
Amid the chaos and nightly bombing of World War II, he labored in the Censorship Department as a translator but spent the majority of his time restoring paintings at Windsor Castle. In 1952, he retired to Aberdeen where ten years later, despite his failing eyesight, he drew upon his earlier sketches to reconstruct his original work The Breakdown nearly thirty years after its destruction. Souter remained in Aberdeen until his death in 1972.
| SKU | qg050 |
|---|---|
| Artist | John Bulloch Souter (1890–1972) |
| Date | 1923 |
| Dimensions | 20 x 24cm |
| Medium | Etching |
| Subject | Architecture & Cityscapes |
| Item Returns | This item can be returned |
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