FRANCIS CAMPBELL BOILEAU CADELL R.S.A., R.S.W. (SCOTTISH 1883-1937) WHITE SANDS, NORTH END, IONA Signed, watercolour

(16.5cm x 24cm (6.5in x 9in))

Provenance: Mrs Euphemia Ritchie, Iona

This work formerly belonged to the artist Mrs Euphemia Ritchie, wife of the metal worker and jewellery designer Alexander Ritchie. Their shop, Iona Celtic Art, was in the grounds of Iona's Nunnery and the couple were the only resident artists on the island during the first half of the twentieth-century (see Jessica Christian and Charles Stiller, Iona Portrayed: The Island through Artists' Eyes 1760-1960, The New Iona Press, Inverness, 2001, p. 53). They became good friends with Cadell, who occasionally stayed with them in their house, Shuna, in the village. Mrs Ritchie appears in Cadell's 'Register of Pictures 1917-30' from 1914 until 1926 as both a purchaser and recipient of his work, the former recorded in black ink and the latter in red (the register in on loan to the National Galleries of Scotland from a private collection).