Who is William Bell Scott

William Bell Scott (1811–1890) was a Scottish artist in oils and watercolour and occasionally printmaking. He was also a poet and art teacher, and his posthumously published reminiscences give a chatty and often vivid picture of life in the circle of the Pre-Raphaelites; he was especially close to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. After growing up in Edinburgh, he moved to London, and from 1843 to 1864 was principal of the government School of Art in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he added industrial subjects to his repertoire of landscapes and history painting. He was one of the first British artists to extensively depict the processes of the Industrial Revolution. He returned to London, working for the Science and Art Department until 1885.He painted a cycle of historical subjects mixed with scenes...
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William Bell Scott Poems

• The Which's Ballad
  O, I hae come from far away,
  From a warm land far away,
  A southern land across the sea,
  With sailor-lads about the mast,...

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• Elsamc1878: art: william bell scott.
• Laurenbeatty93: emily was able to finally present her research postponed by covid on pre-raphaelite portraits in the king's quair mural by william bell scott!
• Bilderbote: william bell scott (1811-1890) - william bell scott (1811–1890), poet and artist, self portrait - pg 1849 - national galleries of scotland
• Johnconstablera: brighton by william bell scott 1817 oil on canvas
• Thain_colin: iron and coal 1861, william bell scott

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