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David Scott
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or The Household Gods Destroyed." The works of his later years include "Vasco da Gama encountering the Spirit of the Storm," a picture - immense in size and most powerful in conception - finished in 1842, and now preserved in the Trinity House, 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 characterpainting; and "Ariel and Caliban" (1837) and the "Triumph 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" (1835) and the "Crucifixion - the Dead Rising" (1844). Scott also executed several remarkable series of designs. Two of these - the Monograms of Man and the illustrations to Coleridge's Ancient Mariner - were etched by his own hand, and published in 1831 and 1837 respectively, while his subjects from the Pilgrim's Progress and 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. (1850), and J. M. Gray, David Scott, R.S.A., and his Works (1884).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'David Scott'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/d/david-scott.html. 1910.
