Lot 33
JOSEPH MILNE (SCOTTISH 1859-1911)
SHEEP GRAZING ON THE COAST
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Auction: Day Sale | Lots 1 to 108 | Thursday 04 December 2025 from 2pm
Description
Signed and dated '88, oil on canvas
Dimensions
30.5cm x 46cm (12in x 18in)
Footnote
This painting from 1888 combines two of Joseph Milne favourite subjects – grazing animals (sheep or cattle) in a country setting with trees; and a shoreline, be it riverbank, loch-side or seashore. As examples, in 1886 his Royal Scottish Academy exhibits included By the River Tay and Shores of Tay. In 1889 he showed On the Fife Shore at the Academy.
By 1888 Milne had been exhibiting for over ten years as a professional artist and although his painting locations of previous years had varied from Dordrecht in Holland (1883/4), Fife (Buckhaven and Tayport), Yorkshire and London, he was confirmed as an Edinburgh painter. He continued to live in the Scottish capital until leaving for London in 1903. When the family returned to Scotland in 1908, his eldest son John Maclauchlan Milne had begun to follow his father as a professional landscape artist.
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 his help with our research.