{"title":"Scott, Samuel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSamuel Scott (c. 1702-1772)\u003c\/strong\u003e was an English painter who specialised in landscape painting and marine art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScott was born in London and began painting around 1720. Nothing is known of his artistic training. He started as a maritime artist, painting men-of-war and other ships on calm seas in the style of Willem van de Velde, many of whose drawings he owned. 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\". Around this time, he posed for the Portrait of Samuel Scott by Thomas Hudson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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. An account of their trip was written by Ebenezer Forrest and eventually published in 1782, with engravings taken from drawings by Hogarth and Scott.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the early 1740s, Scott began making sketches of London, especially of the new Westminster Bridge, then under construction. When, following the arrival of Canaletto in London in 1746, paintings of views of the city became fashionable, he began working the sketches up into oil paintings. He painted at least eleven versions of a view of the Old London Bridge, the earliest dating from 1747. Scott continued to paint copies of it after 1757, when the houses lining the bridge, shown in the painting, had been demolished. The London Bridge pictures were often painted as one of a pair, with an image of the Tower of London or Westminster Bridge as a pendant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1761 and 1771, he exhibited three works at the Society of Artists, one at the Free Society of Artists, and one, The Thames and the Tower of London, at the Royal Academy's Exhibition of 1771. He was one of the early draughtsmen in watercolour, and was called the father of English watercolour, but his chief works were in oil. Some of Scott's most celebrated paintings were his depictions of scenes during the War of Jenkins' Ear. Scott earned a considerable reputation for his shore and river scenes, which were well-drawn and painted, and enlivened with figures. Horace Walpole, who had a large collection of his works, said that they \"will charm in every age\" and that \"if he was second to Vandeveldt in sea pieces, he excelled him in variety.\" His views of London Bridge, the Custom-house Quay, and other pictures of the Thames earned him the name \"the English Canaletto\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScott lived at number 2 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, overlooking the Piazza at Covent Garden, from 1747 to 1758. He moved to Twickenham in 1758, and then to Ludlow, where his daughter was living, before retiring to Bath, where he died in Walcot Street, of gout, on 12 October 1772, leaving one daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Marlow (1740-1813) and the animal painter Sawrey Gilpin (1733-1807) were his pupils. Marlow produced similar scenes to Scott of the Thames and later acquired his former villa at Twickenham.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"scott-samuel-1702-1772-an-arch-of-westminster-bridge-c-1750","title":"Scott, Samuel (1702-1772) - An Arch of Westminster Bridge c.1750","description":"\u003cp\u003ePainting by British artist Samuel Scott.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image in JPEG format that is 600dpi and 4739 pixels wide by 3752 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/scott-samuel\" title=\"Samuel Scott\"\u003eSamuel Scott\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60985251955018,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Scott_Samuel_1702-1772_-AnArchofWestminsterBridge_main.jpg?v=1769801769"},{"product_id":"scott-samuel-1702-1772-church-of-saint-magnus-and-old-london-bridge","title":"Scott, Samuel (1702-1772) - Church of Saint Magnus and Old London Bridge","description":"\u003cp\u003ePainting by British artist Samuel Scott, or one of his followers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image in JPEG format that is 600dpi and 5103 pixels wide by 5949 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/scott-samuel\" title=\"Samuel Scott\"\u003eSamuel Scott\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60985256477002,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Scott_Samuel_1702-1772_-ChurchofSaintMagnusandOldLondonBridge_main.jpg?v=1769801768"},{"product_id":"thames-the-1951-various-artists-18-images","title":"Thames, The 1951 - Various artists - 18 images","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Thames from Mouth to Source is a 1951 book written by L.T.C. 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