Samuel Scott (painter)
Samuel Scott | |
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Born | 1702 |
Died | 12 October 1772 | (aged 69–70)
Children | 1 daughter |
Samuel Scott (1702 – 12 October 1772)[1] was a British landscape painter known for his riverside scenes and seascapes.
Early life
Scott was born in London, and began painting around 1720.[citation needed] Nothing is known of his artistic training.[2] He started as a maritime artist, painting men-of-war and other ships on calm seas[3] in the style of Willem van de Velde,[4] many of whose drawings he owned.[3] He also painted a set of six pictures of settlements owned by the East India Company in collaboration with George Lambert. Scott painted the ships, Lambert the buildings and landscape. Writing in 1733, George Vertue included Scott among London's "most elevated men in art".[3]
From 27 to 31 May 1732, he made a celebrated "Five days' Peregrination" to the Medway estuary and the Isle of Sheppey in company with William Hogarth and others.[5][6] An account of their trip was written by Ebenezer Forrest and eventually published in 1782, with engravings taken from drawings by Hogarth and Scott.
In the early 1740s, Scott began making sketches of London, especially of the new
Later life
Between 1761 and 1771, he exhibited three works at the
Scott earned a considerable reputation for his shore and river scenes, which were well-drawn and painted, and enlivened with figures.
Scott lived at number 2
William Marlow (1740–1813) and the animal painter Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807) were his pupils.[3]
References and sources
- References
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 51. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 66–7.
- ^ Manners and Morals,: p 114
- ^ a b c d e Lyles, Anne; Hamlyn, Robin (1997). English Watercolours from the Oppé Collection. London: Tate Gallery. p. 54.
- ^ Manners and Morals, p 246
- ^ Five Days' peregrination (Daily Telegraph, 27 January 2007).
- ^ Mitchell, Charles, ed. (1952). Hogarth's Peregrination. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Manners and Morals,: p 188
- ^ "Henrietta Street and Maiden Lane Area: Henrietta Street", Survey of London: Volume 36, 1970, pp. 230-239. Date accessed: 29 September 2014.
- ^ "Samuel Scott". Twickenham Museum. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
- Sources
- Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting1700–1760 (Exhibition catalogue). London: Tate Gallery. 1987.
External links
- 61 artworks by or after Samuel Scott at the Art UK site
- Action of Cartagena, 1708
- Samuel Scott online (ArtCyclopedia)
- Peter Monamy & Samuel Scott
- Scott biography + paintings (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London)
- Scott's paintings (Tate Gallery, London)
- A view of Covent garden Piazza (Christie's)
- The building of Westminster Bridge (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York )