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WILLIAM BELL SCOTT (1811-1890)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 475 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:BELL See also:SCOTT (1811-1890)  , See also:British poet and artist, son of See also: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 . 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 . In 1837 he went to See also:London, where he became sufficiently well known as an artist to be appointed in 1844 See also:master of the See also:government school of See also:design at See also:Newcastle-on-See also:Tyne . 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 See also:Science and Art See also:Department . He did much See also:fine decorative work, too, on his own See also: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 . For Penhill See also:Castle, See also:Perthshire, he executed a similar See also:series, illustrating The See also:King's Quhair . 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 See also:Rossetti and in high repute as an artist and an author . His See also:poetry, which he published at intervals (notably Poems, 1875, illustrated by etchings by himself and See also:Alma-Tadema), recalled See also:Blake and See also: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 . 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 See also:writing his reminiscences, which were published posthumously in 1892, with a memoir by'See also:Professor See also:Minto . It is for his connexion with Rossetti's circle that See also:Bell Scott will be chiefly remembered .

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