Lot 161: ALEXANDER IGNATIUS ROCHE RSA (SCOTTISH 1861 -

ALEXANDER IGNATIUS ROCHE RSA (SCOTTISH 1861 - 1921) THE RETURNING BOAT oil on panel, signed 'Alexander Roche' (lower right) 25.5 x 32 cm (10 1/16 x 12 5/8 inches). Provenance : Aitken Dott gallery label verso Note : He won a gold medal at Munich 1891, an Hon. Mention at the Paris Salon 1892 and a gold medal at Dresden 1897. Elected ARSA 1894 and RSA 1900, he exhibited at the RSA from 1887 - 1916 and at the RA from 1890 - 1919. Roche was considered a member of the Glasgow School, but after the late 1880s he drifted to the fringes of the movement. In 1906, he remarried, to Jean, daughter of the animal painter Robert Alexander and sister of Edwin, the flower and animal painter. All four shared a friendship with Joseph Crawhall, together with a love of Tangier. They lived from 1907 until the outbreak of the Great War at 8 Royal Terrace in Edinburgh and around this time he was struck with a cerebral haemorrhage which paralysed his right hand. He taught himself to paint with his left and was later to produce some of his best landscapes