Gertrude Antiques has dated this Scottish Landscape Oil Painting to the 1930s.
James Kay, RSA, RSW Scottish (1858 -1942)
Born on the Isle of Arran, Kay spent much of his working life with a studio in Glasgow and living at Portincaple on Loch Long in Argyll and Bute. He was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) in 1906 and to the Royal Scottish Academy in 1938.
Active from the late 1880s, Kay achieved regular recognition at exhibitions in Europe. He exhibited at the Salon in Paris in 1894, and at 1895's La Libre Esthétique in Brussels was awarded an honourable mention. In 1903 his painting Toil and Grime was awarded the silver medal at the Société des Amis des Arts in Rouen, while another work, River of the North, won the gold medal at the Paris Salon. In 1907 his painting Launch of the Lusitania was purchased by the Corporation of Glasgow for the city's art collection.
James Kay married Ada Laval, who was from Mauritius. They had one child, Violet McNeish Kay, in 1914; she went on to become an artist, and died in 1971.
Verso – Label printed from The collection of Haldane Macfall. Chambers Haldane Cooke Macfall (1860-1928) was an English military officer and author. He became an influential art critic and historian, and a successful novelist of both historical fiction and adventure stories.
Signed lower right.
Dimensions: 34.5 cm x 24.5 cm actual painting (mounted and framed 50 cm x 39 cm).
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Gertrude Antiques has dated this Scottish Landscape Oil Painting to the 1930s.
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Scottish Landscape by James Kay
