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DAVID SCOTT (18o6-1849)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 468 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAVID See also:SCOTT (18o6-1849)  , Scottish See also:historical painter, See also:brother of See also:William See also:Bell See also:Scott, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh in See also:October 18o6, and studied See also:art under his See also:father, See also:Robert Scott, the en-graver . In 1828 he exhibited his first oil picture, the " Hopes of See also:Early See also:Genius dispelled by See also:Death," which Was followed by " See also:Cain, See also:Nimrod, See also:Adam and See also:Eve singing their See also:Morning Hymn," " See also:Sarpedon carried by See also:Sleep and Death," and other subjects of a poetic and imaginative See also:character . In 1829 he became a member of the Scottish See also:Academy, and in 1832 visited See also:Italy, where he spent more than a See also:year in study . At See also:Rome he executed a large symbolical See also:painting, entitled the " Agony of Discord, or the See also:Household Gods Destroyed." The See also:works of his later years include " Vasco da Gama encountering the Spirit of the See also:Storm," a picture—immense in See also:size and most powerful in conception—finished in 1842, and now preserved in the Trinity See also:House, See also:Leith; the " See also:Duke of See also:Gloucester entering the See also:Water See also:Gate of See also:Calais " (1841); the " Alchemist " (1838), " See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth at the Globe See also:Theatre " (1840) and " See also:Peter the See also:Hermit " (1845), remarkable for varied and elaborate character-painting; and " Ariel and Caliban " (1837) and the " See also:Triumph of Love " (1846), distinguished by beauty of colouring and See also:depth of poetic feeling . The most important of his religious subjects are the " Descent from the See also:Cross " (1835) and the " Crucifixion —the Dead Rising " (1844) . Scott also executed several remarkable See also:series of designs . Two of these—the Monograms of See also:Man and the illustrations to See also:Coleridge's See also:Ancient Mariner—were etched by his own See also:hand, and published in 1831 and 1837, respectively, while his subjects from the See also:Pilgrim's Progressand See also:Nichol's See also:Architecture of the Heavens were issued after his death . He died in Edinburgh on the 5th of See also:March 1849 . See W . Bell Scott, Memoir of See also:David Scott, R.S.A . (185o), and J . M .

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Gray, David Scott, R.S.A., and his Works (1884) .

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