Society of Eight

About

The Society of Eight was a Scottish exhibiting society founded in Edinburgh in 1912 by a group of eight artists who shared a commitment to high standards of painting and a desire to exhibit together outside the Royal Scottish Academy. Active until 1939, the group is historically significant for promoting the work of the Scottish Colourists and other prominent figures of the era.

Associated movements

• Post-Impressionism
• Symbolism

Also represented in

• Glasgow Boys · 2 shared members
• Scottish Colourists · 2 shared members
• Kirkcudbright Artists' Colony · 1 shared member
• Société nationale des beaux-arts · 1 shared member

Member artists

• John Duncan 1866–1945
• John Lavery 1856–1941
• William York Macgregor 1855–1923
• Samuel Peploe 1871–1935
• Francis Cadell 1883–1937
• James Cadenhead 1858–1927

Works by its members

• Saint Bride John Duncan · 1913
• Anna Pavlova (1881–1931), as 'The Dying Swan' John Lavery · 1911
• Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) John Lavery · 1913
• Portrait of John Stewart Collis (1900-1984), Author John Lavery · 1940
• Portrait of W.E.H. Lecky (1838-1903), Historian John Lavery · 1903
• David Lloyd George (1863–1945) John Lavery · 1934
• Saint Patrick's Purgatory, Lough Derg John Lavery · 1906
• Portrait of Dora Sigerson (Mrs Shorter) (c.1870-1918), Poet John Lavery · 1919
• Portrait of T.P. O'Connor, Parliamentarian and Journalist John Lavery · 1906
• Portrait of Lady Lavery as Kathleen Ni Houlihan John Lavery · 1927
• Winter Landscape William York Macgregor · 1908
• The Artist's Studio: Lady Hazel Lavery with her Daughter Alice and Stepdaughter Eileen John Lavery · 1911
• The Ratification of the Irish Treaty in the English House of Lords, 1921 John Lavery · 1921
• A Visitor John Lavery · 1893
• The Return of the Goats John Lavery · 1892
• On the Bridge at Grez John Lavery · 1892
• Return from Market John Lavery · 1892
• Loch Katrine John Lavery · 1913
• The Dutch Cocoa House at the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1888 John Lavery · 1894
• The Black Bottle Samuel Peploe · 1905
• Angus Og, God of Love and Courtesy, Putting a Spell of Summer Calm on the Sea John Duncan · 1908
• A Castle on a Cliff William York Macgregor · 1906
• A Rocky Solitude William York Macgregor · 1898
• Anna Pavlova John Lavery · 1920
• Girl in Blue - Reflections Francis Cadell · 1912
• Lady in White Francis Cadell · 1910
• Dutchman's Cap from Iona Francis Cadell · 1919
• A Lady in Black Francis Cadell · 1926
• The Opening of the Modern Foreign and Sargent Galleries at the Tate Gallery, 26 June 1926 John Lavery · 1926
• Her First Communion John Lavery · 1902
• Lady Lavery in an Evening Cloak John Lavery · 1906
• A Highland Pastoral James Cadenhead · 1902
• Potter at Work John Lavery · 1894
• Interior: The Orange Blind Francis Cadell · 1927
• Still life: apples and jar Samuel Peploe · 1912
• Reflections Francis Cadell · 1915
• In Morocco John Lavery · 1913
• Edward Arthur Walton, 1860 - 1922. Artist (With his fiancee Helen Law or Henderson, 1859 - 1945, later Mrs Edward Arthur Walton, as Hokusai and the Butterfly) John Lavery · 1895
• A Quiet Day in the Studio John Lavery · 1893
• Woman Painting a Pot John Lavery · 1894
• State Visit of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria to the Glasgow International Exhibition, 1888 John Lavery · 1896
• Mrs Fitzroy Bell John Lavery · 1898
• A Conquest, a Heart for a Rose John Lavery · 1892