William Scrope (1772–1852) was an English sportsman and amateur artist, known as a writer on sports. William Scrope self portrait

Life

He was son of Richard Scrope, D.D., and succeeded to the property of the Scropes of Castle Combe, Wiltshire, on the death of his father in 1787. In 1795 the Scrope estates of Cockerington, Lincolnshire, also passed to him. He was a classical scholar, a sportsman devoted to deer-stalking and

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, and landscape artist. Scrope rented a place near

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, where he lived on good terms with Sir Walter Scott. He was a member of the Accademia di San Luca of Rome, and a fellow of the Linnean Society. He died at his house in Belgrave Square, London, on 20 July 1852.

Works

Scrope published two books, ''The Art of Deerstalking'' (1838, reissued 1885), and ''Days and Nights of Salmon-fishing in the Tweed'', (1843, reissued 1883). They were both illustrated with plates after Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, David Wilkie,

William Simson William Simson (1798/9929 August 1847) was a Scottish portrait, landscape and subject painter. Biography Simson was born at Dundee in 1798/99. He studied under Andrew Wilson at the Trustees' Academy on Picardy Place in Edinburgh, and his early ...

, and others. Painting views in Scotland, Italy, Sicily, and elsewhere, Scrope exhibited occasionally at the

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, and later at the

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, of which he was an active director. He was frequently assisted in his work by William Simson, R.S.A.

Family

Scrope was a direct descendant of Richard le Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton, and was the last male representative of his family. He married, in 1794, Emma Long, daughter of Charles Long, of Grittleton, Wiltshire, and had an only daughter and heir, Emma Phipps; she married, in 1821,

George Poulett Thomson George Julius Poulett Scrope FRS (10 March 1797 – 19 January 1876) was an English geologist and political economist as well as a Member of Parliament and magistrate for Stroud in Gloucestershire. While an undergraduate at Cambridge, thr ...

, who then assumed the name and arms of Scrope.

Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Scrope, William 1772 births 1852 deaths 18th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English painters English landscape painters English writers William 19th-century English male artists 18th-century English male artists