THOMAS MILLIE DOW RSW NEAC ROI (SCOTTISH 1848 - 1919), SPRINGTIME oil on canvas 34.5cm x 44cm Framed Provenance: This lot and the following two lots have been passed down directly through the artist's family and are accompanied by a letter (copy) of authenticity from the great granddaughter of the artist. Thomas Millie Dow (28 October 1848 - 3 July 1919) was a member of the Glasgow Boys school. He was a member of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and the New English Art Club. Dow painted in oils, watercolour and pastels. His subjects include flower studies, landscapes, portraits and decorative allegorical works. The geographical range of his landscapes extends through Scotland, the Northeastern United States, Morocco, northern Italy and Cornwall. Using a subtly refined palette he chose to depict the quiet moods of nature. The subjects of his compositions range from the intense stillness of woodland to the calm before a storm at sea; and from dusk deepening on a northern shore to the lifting haze of a Mediterranean spring morning. From 1877 to 1879 Dow spent the winters in the Paris studios and making occasional sketching excursions with fellow students Mann, Paterson, and Bell, to the villages of Barbizon and Grez-sur-Loing in the Forest of Fontainebleau. The summers, he spent painting in the towns and villages along the east coast of Scotland, travelling from Dysart through St Andrews and on up to Stonehaven, Cullen, Cowie, Collieston and Forvie Ness. It is for the work completed between 1885 and 1895 that Dow is most closely associated with that group of artists who later became affectionately known as the ''Glasgow Boys''. Dow is among the 21 Glasgow-based artists whose work is assessed in David Martin's contemporary account entitled The Glasgow School of Painting (George Bell & Sons 1897). In his piece on Dow, Martin wrote as follows. ''His perception of colour is similar to his use of paint - keen and refined; and his observation of nature such as to give a true feeling of form, without a slavish imitation.''