Biographical Text
Milne was a well known Scottish landscape artist who portrayed not only his native land, but also scenes from southern France. He was born in Edinburgh in 1886 and educated there, at George Watson’s College. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art, moving afterwards to Kingoodie, overlooking the Firth of Tay, near Dundee. During the First World War Maclauchlan Milne left to fight in France on the Western Front. France had a strong impression on the young artist, and he subsequently spent long periods of time there, from 1919-1932. He later settled in Arran, where he died in 1957. Maclauchlan Milne exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy, at the Glasgow Institute, and showed works in London and New York.
