John Bulloch Souter
John "Jack" Bulloch Souter (4 June 1890 – 10 May 1972), also known as J.B. Souter, was a Scottish painter, sculptor, and illustrator, best known for his Jazz Age-themed work '' The Breakdown''. Biography Born in Aberdeen in northeast Scotland, he was a skilled pupil at Ferryhill School, then Gray's School of Art, and then the Allan Fraser School in Arbroath. He won the Byrne Travelling Scholarship awarded by the Scottish Education Department which enabled him to comfortably tour the European continent. During this continental tour, he was purportedly much impressed by Diego Velázquez, Johannes Vermeer, and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. Following the outbreak of World War I, Souter served in the Gordon Highlanders and the Royal Army Medical Corps. Upon returning to civilian life, he married Christian Grace Reid and relocated to London. During the post-war period, he garnered a reputation as a talented portraitist, and his many subjects included such personalities as Gladys ...
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