William Bell Scott
British artist (1811-1890) · Artists · Died at 79
William Bell Scott was a Scottish artist in oils and watercolour and occasionally printmaking. He was also a poet and art teacher, and his posthumously published reminiscences give a chatty and often vivid picture of life in the circle of the Pre-Raphaelites; he was especially close to Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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Penkill Castle![William Bell Scott; John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti by William Downey, 1863[2]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/William_Bell_Scott%3B_John_Ruskin%3B_Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_by_William_Downey.jpg/1280px-William_Bell_Scott%3B_John_Ruskin%3B_Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_by_William_Downey.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
William Bell Scott; John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti by William Downey, 1863[2]
The memorial plaque on the wall above his grave at the Boyds of Penkill burial ground, Old Dailly Kirk, Ayrshire, Scotland.
William Bell Scott Iron and Coal. 1855-60. National Trust, Wallington, Northumberland
Ailsa Craig by William Bell Scott (Yale Center for British Art)About this person
After growing up in Edinburgh, he moved to London, and from 1843 to 1864 was principal of the government School of Art in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he added industrial subjects to his repertoire of landscapes and history painting. He was one of the first British artists to extensively depict the processes of the Industrial Revolution. He returned to London, working for the Science and Art Department until 1885.
