Lot 55
JOSEPH MILNE (SCOTTISH 1857-1911)
BY THE LOCH
Estimate: £600 - £800
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Auction: Day Sale | Lots 1-102 | Thursday 05 December from 2pm
Description
Signed, oil on board
Dimensions
38cm x 54cm (15in x 21in)
Footnote
Joseph Milne was particularly fond of painting cattle and sheep in rural settings. From his known, dated paintings, there are cattle grazing examples from 1895, 1897, 1903 and various other undated examples, such as By the Loch. The specific locations of these landscape pictures are rarely recorded.
This picture carries an old and frayed label, verso, from a framer in Oudezijds Voorburgwal, a street and canal in the centre of Amsterdam. Milne exhibited his paintings from Holland in Dunfermline in 1883 (Dunfermline Fine Art Association, 1883. Dordrecht no. 83 and Dutch Village no. 207) and at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1884 (The Maas no. 87 and Dutch Barge no.921), however, his link with Amsterdam remains unexplained.
We are grateful to Maurice Millar, author of The Missing Colourist: The Search for John Maclauchlan Milne RSA (privately published in 2022 and available via The Missing Colourist website) for writing this catalogue note.
