William Bell Scott

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

Life

William Bell Scott was the son of architecture and landscape engraver Robert Scott and a brother of the painter David Scott 's father and brother also gave him his first lessons, followed by a visit to the Trustees ' Academy in Edinburgh joined. From 1837 to 1843 he lived in London, whither he also a teacher returned after 15 years of employment at the Drawing School in Newcastle- on-Tyne in 1858. Scott was close to the Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti with whom he was friends. Since the late 1850s, he maintained a close friendship with Alice Boyd, the owner of Castle Penkill Castle, from which resulted in a series of orders. There, Scott died in 1890.

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

Work

Murals

• Wallington Hall - scenes from the history of Northumberland
• Penkill Castle - episode: "The King's Quair "

Writings

• 5 volumes of poems
• Memoir of Scott Davis. In 1850.
• Autobiogr. Notes etc. Edited by W. Minto, London 1892.

Ailsa Craig (1860 )

Rossetti 's Wombat Seated (1871 )

Algernon Charles Swinburne