Samuel Bough (1822–1878) 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 Turner. 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 Hamilton 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

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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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