Samuel Scott, ca. (1702–1772)   

• Was a British landscape painter.
• Samuel Scott is known for his riverside scenes and seascapes.
• Scott was born in London.
• He began painting in around 1720.
• He started as a maritime artist, painting men-of-war and other ships on calm seas in the style of Willem van de Velde.
• He also painted a set of six pictures of settlements owned by the East India Company in collaboration with George Lambert.
• Scott painted the ships, Lambert the buildings and landscape.
• Writing in 1733, George Vertue included Scott among London's "most elevated men in art".
• William Marlow and the animal painter Sawrey Gilpin were his pupils.
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