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See also: British poet and artist, son of Robert See also: Scott (1777-1841), the engraver, and See also: brother of See also: David Scott, the painter, was See also: born in See also: Edinburgh on the 12th of See also: September 1811
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While a See also: young See also: man he studied See also: art and assisted his See also: father, and he published verses in the Scottish magazines
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In 1837 he went to See also: London, where he became sufficiently well known as an artist to be appointed in 1844 master of the See also: government school of design at See also: Newcastle-on-See also: Tyne
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He held the See also: post for twenty years, and did See also: good See also: work in organizing art-teaching and examining under the Science and Art Department
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He did much See also: fine decorative work, too, on his own account, notably at Wallington See also: Hall, in the shape of eight large pictures illustrating Border
See also: history, with See also: life-See also: size figures; supplemented by eighteen pictures illustrating the ballad of Chevy See also: Chase in the spandrels of the See also: arches of the hall
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For Penhill See also: Castle, See also: Perthshire, he executed a similar series, illustrating The See also: King's Quhair
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After 187o he was much in London, where he bought a
See also: house in See also: Chelsea, and he was an intimate friend of Rossetti and in high repute as an artist and an author
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His See also: poetry, which he published at intervals (notably Poems, 1875, illustrated by etchings by himself and See also: Alma-Tadema), recalled Blake and Shelley, and was considerably influenced by Rossetti; he also wrote several volumes of See also: artistic and See also: literary See also: criticism, and edited See also: Keats, " L.E.L.," See also: Byron, See also: Coleridge, Shelley, See also: Shakespeare and Scott
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He resigned his See also: appointment under the Science and Art Department in 1885, and from then till his See also: death (22nd See also: November 1890) he was mainly occupied in writing his reminiscences, which were published posthumously in 1892, with a memoir by'Professor Minto
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It is for his connexion with Rossetti's circle that See also: Bell Scott will be chiefly remembered
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