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Spectacular Fushimi Inari Shrine , Japan
03/04/2026

Spectacular Fushimi Inari Shrine , Japan

The Conservation of Constance Felicity Crombie by “J.B. SOUTER 1927”. Private Collection John Bulloch Souter 1880-19...
07/02/2026

The Conservation of Constance Felicity Crombie by “J.B. SOUTER 1927”. Private Collection
John Bulloch Souter 1880-1971( extract from Artuk.com)
Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
Painter, draughtsman, printmaker and restorer, born in Aberdeen, Scotland. After showing much promise in art at Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, he attended Gray’s School of Art there. A travelling scholarship allowed him to work extensively on the continent, where Velázquez, Chardin and Vermeer, especially, much impressed him. During World War I served as non-combatant in Royal Medical Corps, then married and moved to London. By this time he had established himself as an RA exhibitor, and in the period after the war he made a name as a portrait painter, his subjects including stage personalities such as Ivor Novello, Gladys Cooper and Fay Compton as well as notables in public and academic life. In 1926 Souter’s picture The Breakdown caused a stir at RA, depicting a Black jazz musician, a naked white girl dancer and a broken classic statue.
Souter consolidated his reputation with exhibits at Redfern Gallery, Fine Art Society, RSA and elsewhere. In World War II he worked in the Censorship Department, London, as a translator and restored paintings at Windsor Castle. Returned to Aberdeen in 1952, where he remained.

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