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J. Leathart, Newcastle; Peter the Hermit (1845), Charles Jenner, Portobello; Triumph of Love (1846), R. Carfrae, Edinburgh; Queen Mary on the Scaffold (1847), Mrs. White, Netherurd (?); Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848), Public Library, Concord, Mass.; Hope passing over the Sky of Adversity (1848), D. Nicolson, Edinburgh.—W. B. Scott, Memoir (Edinburgh, 1850); Cunningham; Redgrave; Art Journal, ii. 120; Blackwood's Mag., cxxx. 589; John M. Gray, D. S. and his Works (Edinburgh and London, 1884).
SCOTT, JULIAN, born at Johnson, Lamoille
County, Vt., Feb. 14, 1846. Historical
genre painter; served as a volunteer in Army
of the Potomac in 1861-63; studied in
schools of National Academy in 1863-64, and
under the direction of Emanuel Leutze until
1868. Visited Paris in 1866. First exhibited
in the National Academy in 1870;
elected an A.N.A. in 1871. Studio in Plainfield,
N. J. Works: Rear Guard at White
Oak Swamp (Union League Club, New
York), Gen. O. B. Wilcox in Libby Prison
(1870); Near the Outposts (Judge J. R.
Brady), On Board the Hartford (1874), Loyall
Farragut; Old Records (1875), William
E. Dodge, New York; Capture of André
(1876), J. A. Harper, ib.; Reserves awaiting
Orders (1877); Poke o' Moonshine, Meditation
(1878); In the Cornfield at Antietam
(1879); Hancock at the Battle of Williamsburg
(Capt. J. S. Wharton), Bessie Scott
(1880, Artist); Fishing Boats at Antium
near Rome (1882); Outpost Duty, Rescue
of the Colour-Bearer at the Battle of Proctor's
Creek—May 16, 1864 (1883); Art Student,
Sortie at Petersburg in 1864 (1884);
Game of Freeze-Out (1886).
SCOTT, SAMUEL, born in London about
1710 (?), died there, Oct. 12, 1772. Best
marine painter of his time in England, and,
says Dallaway, the father of the modern
school of painting in water-colours. A boon
companion of Hogarth, and one of the jovial
water party to Gravesend in 1732. His Old
London Bridge (1745), and Old Westminster
Bridge, are in the National Gallery, London.—Walpole,
Anecdotes (ed. Wornum), 709.
SCOTT AND HIS DOGS, Sir Edwin
Landseer, M'Grath, London. Sir Walter,
seated with the favourite companions of his
walks, the deerhound Maida and his Dandy
Dinmonts. Sometimes called from the locality
the Rhymer's Glen picture. Royal Academy,
1833; painted for Mr. Wells, of Redleaf;
passed to Jacob Burnett, at whose sale
(1876), for £3,202 10s. to Vincent Calmady
(?); sold at Christie's (1886) for £2,047 10s.
SCOTT AND HIS FRIENDS, Thomas
Faed, private gallery, England. Sir Walter
Scott, surrounded by his friends, in his
library at Abbotsford. Among them are
Henry Mackenzie, John Wilson, George
Crabbe, Lockhart, William Wordsworth,
Francis Jeffrey, Robert Ferguson, Thomas
Moore, Dr. John Allen, Thomas Campbell,
Sir David Wilkie, and Archibald Constable.
Engraved by John Faed.
SCRETA, KARL (Ritter Scotnowsky von
Zaworzic), born in Prague about 1604, died
there, 1674. German school; history and
portrait painter, imitated Guido Reni and
Caravaggio, but kept free from mannerism,
and was a correct draughtsman. During
the Thirty Years' War he went to Italy,
lived in Venice, Bologna, and Florence, and
visited Rome with Wilhelm Bauer in 1634.
The Academy of Bologna offered him a professorship,
but he returned to Prague, where
he was employed by Ferdinand III. Works:
Altarpieces in all the principal churches of
Prague; Portraits and other pictures, Prague
Gallery; Male Portrait, Darmstadt Museum;
do., Gotha Museum; Figures of Saints
(8), Moses, Portrait of Bernard de Witte,
prior of Malta (1651), Dresden Museum;
Christ and the Woman of Samaria, Old Man
with Writing Tablet, Schleissheim Gallery.—Kugler
(Crowe), ii. 526; Nagler, xvi. 183.
SCURI, ENRICO, born in Bergamo in
1806. History painter, pupil of Vienna
Academy. Works: Hercules and Alcestis
(1828); King Starus killing his Daughter
(1830), Vienna Museum.