John MacLauchlan Milne R.S.A. (1885 - 1957)

John MacLauchlan Milne was born in Edinburgh in 1885, the son of the Scottish landscape painter Joseph Milne. He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art, later moving to Kingoodie near Dundee until the outbreak of the First World War. After serving in the Royal Flying Corps he returned briefly to Dundee before going to Paris where he painted a series of street scenes.

Between 1919 and 1932 Milne spent a substantial part of the year in France. He worked in the South of France with his French wife at Lavardin and benefited from a stipend paid by the Dundee marmalade manufacturers Keillers, who took up a proportion of his work. Milne often stayed at Cassis at the same time as Cadell, Peploe and Duncan Grant. At the outbreak of the Second World War Milne returned to Scotland and settled in High Corrie on the isle of Arran where he remained until his death in 1957.

Milne painted in a light and broad manner reflecting the influence of the Colourists and van Gogh, especially in his flower paintings.

Milne was elected ARSA in 1934 and RSA in 1938. He exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Glasgow Institute and showed works in London and New York. A Centenary exhibition of his work was held at Dundee Art Gallery and Museum in 1985.