John White Allen Scott (1815- March 4, 1907) was an American painter and lithographer associated with the
Hudson River School and
White Mountain art.
Biography
John White Allen Scott or John W.A. Scott was born in Roxbury,
Boston,
Massachusetts, in 1815. Scott began as an apprentice at
Pendleton's Lithography
Pendleton's Lithography (1825–1836) was a lithographic print studio in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts, established by brothers William S. Pendleton (1795-1879) and John B. Pendleton (1798-1866). Though relatively short-lived, in its time ...
in 1830 at the same time as fellow Roxbury native
Nathaniel Currier
Nathaniel Currier (March 27, 1813 – November 20, 1888) was an American lithographer. He headed the company Currier & Ives with James Ives.
Early years
Currier was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel and Hannah Currier. He attended ...
of
Currier and Ives. In 1844 Scott started a lithography firm in partnership with
Fitz Hugh Lane
Fitz Henry Lane (born Nathaniel Rogers Lane, also known as Fitz Hugh Lane) (December 19, 1804 – August 14, 1865) was an American painter and printmaker of a style that would later be called Luminism, for its use of pervasive light.
Biography ...
("Lane & Scott's Lithography"), which lasted until 1847. The firm successfully produced lithographs dominated by ships, landscapes and architectural forms. Scott continued to produce "exceptional" lithographs into the 1850s and would remain friends with Lane. Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's
Tremont Temple. Scott's work sold well during his time; for instance, in 1855 he "sold more than 50 landscapes at auction." Among his favorite subjects was Southern New Hampshire's Mount Monadnock. He belonged to the
New England Art Union The New England Art Union (c. 1848 – 1852) was established in Boston, Massachusetts, for "the encouragement of artists, the promotion of art" in New England and the wider United States. Edward Everett, Franklin Dexter, and Henry Wadsworth Lon ...
and the
Boston Art Club (1863-1907), of which he was the oldest member at the time of his death. Scott also frequently exhibited at the
Boston Athenæum
The Boston Athenaeum is one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States. It is also one of a number of subscription library, membership libraries, for which patrons pay a yearly subscription fee to use Athenaeum services. The instit ...
.
Scott's paintings are now held in the collections of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...
, the
Currier Museum of Art, the
Farnsworth Art Museum
The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, United States, is an art museum that specializes in American art. Its permanent collection includes works by such artists as Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, Thomas Eakins, Eastman Johnson, Fitz Henry Lan ...
, the
New Hampshire Historical Society,
and
The Butler Institute of American Art, among other museums and galleries.
References
Image gallery
Image:Bowdoin College 1845.jpeg, Lithograph by Lane & Scott of Bowdoin College, 1845
Image:1846 Newburyport by Lane Scott NYPL.jpeg, Lithograph by Lane & Scott of Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1846
Image:1853 View of Boston Harbor by John White Allen Scott Old State House Museum, Boston, MA - IMG 6705.JPG, Boston Harbor, by John W.A. Scott, 1853 (Old State House Museum, Boston)
Image:1854 View of Roxbury byJohnWAScott MFABoston.png, View of Roxbury by John W.A. Scott, 1854 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
External links
NYPL View of Newburyport, (from Salisbury), 1846. By Lane & Scott
* Post Road Gallery, NY
* Skinner auctioneers, Massachusetts
Work by Scott
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1815 births
1907 deaths
Artists from Boston
19th century in Boston