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A SUNNY MORNING

measurements note
61 by 46 cm., 24 by 18 in.

signed l.r.: Gemmell Hutchison

oil on canvas

PROVENANCE

W. B. Simpson, Glasgow;
Private Collection

NOTE

Robert Gemmell Hutchison is one of the best-known of the early twentieth-century Scottish artists who drew their inspiration from the Hague School of painters and by the work of the nineteenth century Dutch artists Joseph Israels and Bernardus Johannes Blommers. His paintings of fisher-folk, especially of young children playing by the sea or seated in cottage interiors, have a charming pathos and are similar in subject to those painted by his luminary William McTaggart who made regular visits to Hutchisson's favoured painting areas of Machrihanish and Carnoustie.

Hutchison was born in Edinburgh and began his career as an apprentice to a seal engraver before training to become a painter at the Board of Manufacturers School of Art in the city. He began to exhibit at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1878 and at the Royal Academy in London from 1880. His paintings of children involved in everyday humble activities became very popular when exhibited. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1901, becoming a full member in 1911. His work was also acknowledged abroad and he won a Gold Medal at the Paris Salon exhibitions of 1903 and 1928. Hutchison's wife Maud was also a painter of still life and coastal scenes and their son George Jackson also became a painter. Many of Hutchison's pictures were painted along the coast at Carnoustie and in latter years at Coldingham in Berwickshire where he died in 1936.