Signed l.r.: Andrew Gamley

Watercolour with bodycolour, 50 by 60 cm (19 ¾ by 23 ½ ins)                                                                                 

Gamley, the younger brother of the sculptor Henry Snell Gamley RSA, became the first recipient of the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy Carnegie Scholarship in 1903. The result of this award was a trip to France, where he took afternoon classes at the Academie Julien under Jean-Paul Laurent. Whilst here, Gamley also took time to assimilate international modern art of the period including at the Pantheon where he noted “the great decorations by Puvis de Chavannes”. Gamley’s copy of one of Puvis de Chavannes’s paintings there is now in the collection of the Royal Scottish Academy (acc.1992.224). Much of Gamley’s other work touches on European art of his period, including this fine domestic scene which has something of the character of Scandinavian art and painters like Vilhelm Hammershøi. Gamley later established himself as a portrait and landscape painter and was vice president of the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society.