Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell RSA RSW, (British, 1883-1937)

The Dutchman (1932) 38.1 x 45.7 cm. (15 x 18 in.)

The Dutchman (1932)
signed (lower left), further signed, titled and inscribed (verso)
oil on board
38.1 x 45.7 cm. (15 x 18 in.)

Provenance
The artist, 1932
Ex collection: McEwan
With The Scottish Gallery, stock no. 1085

Cadell first visited the island of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides in 1912 and returned to paint there, on an almost annual basis, often accompanied by Peploe. The views painted on Iona were immediately popular with patrons and have retained their great popularity as records of one of the most beautiful and remote wildernesses in the British Isles. They depict a wide range of features on the island and capture the quality of light created by the ever-changing weather conditions. They also perfectly express the spirit of the Colourist philosophy of painting; rendering the forms of the rocks and shadows in a dramatic language of colour and form. TJ Honeyman, biographer of the Scottish Colourists and the man who coined the term, considered Cadell's Iona series to be the archetypal works of the genre.