Samuel Bough
Samuel Bough (born January 8, 1822 in Carlisle , † November 19, 1878 in Edinburgh ) was a Scottish landscape painter .
Life
Bough was born the third child of a shoemaker originally from Somersetshire . In his early teens he worked in his father's workshop; later he was briefly employed in the office of the Carlisle Town Clerk. But he very quickly gave up the prospect of a legal career and went on a hike to capture landscape scenes in watercolors , where he also had contacts with gypsies . He stayed in London several times during this time . The first time, in 1838, he visited the National Gallery and made a few copies there; Bough never went to art school. In 1845 he got a job as a stage painter in Manchester and later in Glasgow , where he married Isabella Taylor, a theater singer.
Bough's skills made such a lasting impression on the Scottish portrait painter Sir Daniel Macnee that he recommended that he quit his job and work as a professional landscape painter. So from 1849 Bough began serious nature studies in the neighboring Cadzo Forest and in Port Glasgow, where he created his shipbuilding at Dumbarton . In addition, he painted coastal views, moonlight and highland scenes, and at exhibitions he occasionally showed pictures that had been taken on extensive trips through England and across the canal.
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His major works include: Canty Bay , The Rocket Cart , St. Monan’s , London from Shooter's Hill , Kirkwall , Borrowdale (reprinted in Art Journal, 1871), March of the Avenging Army , Bannockburn and the Carse of Stirling and Guildford Bridge . He also illustrated books for Blackie & Co. and other publishers, produced a few not particularly profitable etchings , created several panoramas, and never completely gave up painting sets.
In 1856 Bough became an associate and in 1875 a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy . He was also Vice President of the Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolor, although many contemporaries may remember him as a bohemian . For the last 20 years until his death, he was resident in Edinburgh.
literature
- Marcus Halliwell: Highland Landscapes - Paintings of Scotland in the 19th Century. Garamond Publishers Ltd, London, 1990, ISBN 1-85583-001-9 , p. 28.
- Walter Hepworth: Bough, Samuel . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 6: Bottomley - Browell. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1886, pp. 4 - 5 (English).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bough, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carlisle |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1878 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh |