Dredging on the River Ribble
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Research by Robert M G Fielding
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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 |
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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 1939 Register |
