William Bell Scott

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from left: WB Scott with John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1863)
WB Scott - portrait of Arthur Hughes

William Bell Scott (born September 12, 1811 in Edinburgh , Scotland , † November 22, 1890 in Penkill Castle half a mile south of Old Dailly , in the north-east of Girvan , Ayrshire, Scotland) was a Scottish painter , engraver and poet .

Life

William Bell Scott was the son of the architectural and landscape engraver Robert Scott (born November 13, 1771 in Lanark ; † January 1841 in Edinburgh) and a brother of the painter David Scott (born October 10 (12?) October 1806 in Edinburgh; † March 15, 1849 ibid). Father and brother gave William Bell his first class, which was followed by a visit to the Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh. From 1837 to 1843 he stayed in London , where he returned in 1858 after 15 years as a teacher at the drawing school in Newcastle-on-Tyne . Scott was close to the Pre-Raphaelites around Dante Gabriel Rossetti , with whom he was also friends. Since the late 1850s he had a close friendship with Alice Boyd, the owner of Penkill Castle, which resulted in a number of assignments. Scott died there in 1890.

In 1936, works by William Bell Scott were in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, the Tate Gallery in London and the Art Gallery in Sunderland .

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Murals

  • Wallington Hall - Scenes from the History of Northumberland
  • Penkill Castle - Episode: "The King's Quair"

Fonts

  • 5 volumes of poetry
  • Memoir of Davis Scott. 1850.
  • Life of Albrecht Durer. 1870.
  • Autobiogr. Notes etc. Ed. W. Minto, London 1892.

Web links

Commons : William Bell Scott  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Scott, William Bell . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 409 .
  2. Scott, Robert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 408 .
  3. Scott, David . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 407 .