Sholto Johnstone Douglas

Sholto Johnstone Douglas (1871-1958) was born in Edinburgh, and was a member of the Queensberry family, part of Clan Douglas. Sholto was encouraged to study painting in Dresden, Germany. After sailing around the world, he returned to Paris where he attended the Académie Julian, his teachers including William Bouguereau. He then lived in Antwerp where he was taught by Jean Guillaume Rosier. In 1895 he moved to London, joining the Slade School of Fine Art for tuition under Henry Tonks, Fred Brown and Philip Wilson Steer, who was a particular influence.

He was a portrait painter, at the same time as John Singer Sargent, but he was also known for his paintings of "dazzle" ships during the First World War (fifty-two of these paintings are in the Imperial War Museum) and his Scottish landscapes. He travelled overseas to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. He lived in France from 1926 to 1939 when he did some landscape work in the Provencal area so these works may stem from that time.

  • Figures in a street talking

    Sholto Johnston Douglas

    French couple in a street

  • Female figure sitting

    Sholto Johnston Douglas

    Seated Woman 2

  • Figures having a conversation

    Sholto Johnston Douglas

    Figures Working

  • man in a yellow waitscoat

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Worker in yellow waistcoat

  • figures

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Soldiers in Battle

  • two women

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Two Women

  • a group of figures

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Group of Figures (verso two figures in a street)

  • a well dressed couple

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    The Couple

  • a figure

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Figure with a parcel

  • a factory

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Steelworks

  • figures in a street

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Street seller

  • two figures working

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Two figures at work

  • Three Soldiers

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Three Soldiers on a Rock

  • figures

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Figures in the street

  • figure on a horse

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Figure on Horseback

  • two figures

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Man & Woman

  • Horses and a figure

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Three Horses and a Figure

  • a market place

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Market

  • 2 figures

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Bedside conversation

  • figures in a factory

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Figures in a Factory

  • a worker

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    A Worker

  • figures

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Figures Working 2

  • a woman sitting down

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Woman Resting

  • two figures

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Man & Woman on a promenade

  • two figures

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Two Figures

  • figures by an archway

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Three Figures near archway

  • workers

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Workers

  • two figures

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    The Conversation

  • figures

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Two figures in a street

  • doorway

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Doorway

    Sold

  • A figure in amongst trees

    Sholto Johnston Douglas

    Trees and figure

  • trees in a landscape

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Trees in a Landscape

  • landscape with trees

    Sholto Johnstone Douglas

    Trees with distant hills

  • Landscape with clouds

    Sholto Johnston Douglas

    Landscape

  • Sunrise over a landscape

    Sholto Johnston Douglas

    Sunrise

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