Lot 92: 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 is considered a member of the Glasgow School. Early writers on Alexander Roche attributed his 'romantic blood' to the fact that his father was French and his mother hailed from the Borders. Although five years younger than Lavery, his friendship with the painter predates their studentship in Paris, where Roche not only worked at Julian's, but was for a time, a pupil of Jean-LÚon GÚr¶me. By 1890 Roche was exploring Italy, spending his summer at the village of Anticoli in the Sabine hills. In the autumn of 1892 he and Lavery travelled to Munich, Basle and Venice.