Samuel Bough (8 January 1822 – 19 November 1878) was an English-born

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who spent much of his career working in

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.''Nuttall Encyclopedia'' (1907) "Samuel Bough". Retrieved 8 June 2011.

Life

He was born the third of five children in Abbey Street,

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in northern England, the son of James Bough (1794-1845), a shoemaker, and Lucy Walker, a cook. He was raised in relative poverty, but with a keen encouragement in the arts.''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (2004); "Samuel Bough" He was self-taught but mixed with local artists such as Richard Harrington and George Sheffield, and was strongly influenced by the work of

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. After an unsuccessful attempt to live as an artist in Carlisle he obtained a job and as a theatre scenery painter in

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in 1845, later also working in

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in the same role. Encouraged by

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to take up landscape painting he moved to

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from 1851-4 and worked there with Alexander Fraser. ''In

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Forest'' (1857, Bourne Fine Art), influenced by

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, is a 'magnificent' portrait of two ancient trees. In 1854 he moved to

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to work on his technique of painting ships and harbours. He also began supplementing his income by illustrating books, before moving to

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in 1855. On coming to Edinburgh he lived in a terraced house at 5 Malta Terrace in the Stockbridge area of the city.''Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory''; 1857-58 Following

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's example, he became a skillful painter of seaports. Examples include ''St. Andrews'' (Noble Grossart) and ''The Dreadnought from Greenwich Stairs: Sun Sinking into Vapour'' (1861, private collection). He later fell out with McCulloch (their dogs apparently taking sides in the dispute). He was admired by

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and painted a view of his house at Swanston, and the construction of

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lighthouse. The engineering work for the latter was undertaken by the brothers

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and

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Stevenson, Robert Louis' father and uncle respectively. His health began to fail in 1877 and in January 1878 he suffered a stroke. He died of

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at his later home, Jordan Bank Villa in Morningside, on the south side of the city. R. L. Stevenson penned a glowing obituary of Bough. He was buried in

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Edinburgh on 23 November 1878. The grave bears a bronze medallion of his head by

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and faces over a southern path to the south terrace. Dubh artach

Notes

References

* * MacMillan, Duncan. (1990) ''Scottish Art 1460-1990.'' Edinburgh: Mainstream. * Nicholson, Christopher. (1995) ''Rock Lighthouses of Britain: The End of an Era?'' Dunbeath, Caithness: Whittles.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bough, Sam 1822 births 1878 deaths People from Carlisle, Cumbria Scottish landscape painters British landscape painters 19th-century Scottish painters Scottish male painters Scottish watercolourists Burials at the Dean Cemetery 19th-century Scottish male artists

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