Lot 238: * Thomson (Leslie, 1851-1929). Brora, oil on

* Thomson (Leslie, 1851-1929). Brora, oil on canvas, laid down on board, signed (somewhat indistinctly) lower right, 35 x 51.5cm (13.75 x 20.25ins), framed and glazed. Provenance: Exhibited at the Scottish Artists' Benevolent Association Special Exhibition, Glasgow, March 1915, for the relief of artists in distress owing to the war, with handwritten and printed labels. The Scottish landscape and coastal painter John Leslie Thomson was influenced by Daubigny and the Barbizon School of plein-air painting. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1873, and was a member of the New English Art Club. (1)