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Portraits
The engraver, Robert R Scott had two sons, both artists and
engravers:
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Davis Scott RSA
(b.1806; d.1849) best known as a historical painter.
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Bill Scott, an artist, engraver and art
critic.
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David Scott
David
Scott was, at first, apprenticed to his father, Robert, as a line
engraver. He
devoted himself to painting, studying at the Trustees' Academy in
Edinburgh.
- His painting, The Traitor's Gate, is held by the
National Galleries
of Scotland in Edinburgh
- His painting, The Spirit of the Storm, said to be his
greatest painting and one of the largest canvases ever painted, hangs in
Trinity House, Leith.
- Twenty five of his etchings illustrated Coleridge's Ancient
Mariner. Several of these can be seen in the Print Room at the
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