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Dredging on the River Ribble
by Hugh Berry Scott

Research by Robert M G Fielding
Picture
Acc No               62
Artist                  Hugh Berry Scott
Artist dates        1855-1940
Medium              oil on panel
Size                    29 x 42 cm (11.5 x 16.5 in)
Date painted      1920
Inscr                   signed (L.L.) Inscribed on reverse 'Dredging on
                           the Ribble' with Hugh Berry Scott's name and                                    address
Donor                 Alderman J H Dawson
Date donated     21 December 1942

See also The Herdsman by Hugh Berry Scott


ARTIST

Hugh Berry Scott was born in Preston in 1855, where he became a protégé of the Preston art collector, Richard Newsham.  Scott first moved to Warton around 1880 then in the 1890s, after the death of his wife, he moved with his family of a son and three daughters to a house in Park View Road, Lytham, where he continued to support his family by his art.

In the census of 1891 he is described as an artist of landscapes and portraits and also a sculptor.

His son was killed in the Boer War and by 1910 his daughters had left home. He then rented the Old Customs House (1850) on Lytham Green where he turned the top floor into his studio. It is thought that Dredging on the Ribble was painted there. Scott continued to live at the Customs House until May 1939 and
 died in Huddersfield in February 1940.

A photograph of Hugh Berry Scott in his latter years is held in the archive of the Lytham Heritage Group.

Another painting by Scott, A Field of Yellow Plenty (1929), is held by the Harris Museum and Art Gallery Collection, Preston.

Note:  The Customs House was demolished in November 1962 to make way for the building of the Land Registry.


REFERENCES

Turner, Brian (2011),
Victorian Lytham

BBC Your Paintings http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/dredging-on-the-ribble

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