Samuel Scott
Paintings
The Building of Westminster Bridge
Shipping in a Choppy Sea
The Thames at Twickenham
Shipping on the Thames Off Rotherhite
A first-rate shortening sail
The Building of Westminster Bridge
Departure from England of Francis, Duke of Lorraine, 1731
Part of Old Westminster Bridge
Shipping on the Thames off Rotherhithe
The Thames at Westminster Bridge with Barges
Samuel Scott (1702 – 12 October 1772) was a British landscape painter known for his riverside scenes and seascapes. 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.[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".
From 27–31 May 1732 he made a celebrated "Five days' Peregrination" to the Isle of Sheppey in company with William Hogarth and others.[5] An account of their trip was written by Ebenezer Forrest and published in 1782, illustrated with drawings by Hogarth and Scott.
In 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.[3] He painted at least eleven versions of a view of 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.[6]
Later life
Between 1761 and 1771 he exhibited three works at the Society of Artists, one at the Free Society of artists, and one, A View of the Tower of London, at the Royal Academy in 1771. He was one of the early draughtsmen in watercolours, 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.
Vice Admiral Sir George Anson's Victory off Cape Finisterre, 1749.
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".
Scott lived at number 2 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, overlooking the Piazza at Covent Garden, from 1747 to 1758.[7] He moved to Twickenham in 1758, and then to Ludlow, where his daughter was living,[8] before retiring to Bath, where he died in Walcot Street, of gout, in October 1772, leaving an only daughter. His collection of drawings, prints etc., was sold by Langford in January 1773.
William Marlow (1740-1813) and the animal painter Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807) were his pupils.[3]
References and sources
References
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Scott, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography 51. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 66–7.
Manners and Morals,: p 114
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).
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.
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