SCOTT, DAVID (18o6-1849)

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SCOTT, DAVID (18o6-1849) , Scottish historical painter, brother of William Bell Scott, was born at Edinburgh in October 18o6, and studied art under his father, Robert Scott, the en-graver. In 1828 he exhibited his first oil picture, the " Hopes of Early Genius dispelled by Death," which Was followed by "

Cain

CAIN

, Nimrod,

Adam

and Eve singing their Morning Hymn," " Sarpedon carried by Sleep and Death," and other subjects of a poetic and imaginative character. In 1829 he became a member of the Scottish

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

, and in 1832 visited Italy, where he spent more than a year in study. At Rome he executed a large symbolical painting, entitled the " Agony of Discord, or the Household Gods Destroyed." The works of his later years include " Vasco da Gama encountering the Spirit of the

Storm

," a pictureimmense in size and most powerful in conceptionfinished in 1842, and now preserved in the Trinity

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, Leith; the " Duke of Gloucester entering the Water Gate of Calais " (1841); the " Alchemist " (1838), " Queen Elizabeth at the Globe Theatre " (1840) and " Peter the Hermit " (1845), remarkable for varied and elaborate character-painting; and " Ariel and Caliban " (1837) and the "

Triumph

TRIUMPH (triumphus)

of Love " (1846), distinguished by beauty of colouring and depth of poetic feeling. The most important of his religious subjects are the " Descent from the

Cross

CROSS

" (1835) and the " Crucifixion the Dead Rising " (1844). Scott also executed several remarkable

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of designs. Two of thesethe Monograms of Man and the illustrations to Coleridge's Ancient Marinerwere etched by his own hand, and published in 1831 and 1837, respectively, while his subjects from the Pilgrim's Progressand Nichol's Architecture of the Heavens were issued after his death. He died in Edinburgh on the 5th of March 1849. See W. Bell Scott, Memoir of

David

Scott, R.S.A. (185o), and J. M. Gray,

David

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

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