The Herdsman
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Research by Robert M G Fielding
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Acc No 11
Artist Hugh Berry Scott Artist dates 1853-1940 Medium oil on canvas Size 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in) Date painted unknown Donor Alderman J H Dawson Date donated 21 December 1942 See also Dredging on the Ribble by Hugh Berry Scott |
ARTIST
Hugh Berry Scott was born in Preston on 8 October 1853, where he became a protégé of the Preston art collector, Richard Newsham. Scott first moved to Warton in 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 as 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 Lytham Heritage Group. The only other painting by Scott listed in the BBC archive is Our Field of Yellow Plenty (1929) held in 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, Victorian Lytham (2011) BBC Your Paintings http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings 1939 Register |