John W. A. Scott

Portrait of John W.A. Scott by A.J. Philpott, 1905 (American Antiquarian Society)

John White Allen Scott (1815-1907) or John W.A. Scott was an artist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1][2] He worked for Pendleton's Lithography early in his career. In the 1840s he started a lithography business in partnership with Fitz Hugh Lane ("Lane & Scott's Lithography").[3][4] Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's Tremont Temple.[5] Scott's work sold well; for instance in 1855 he "sold more than 50 landscapes at auction."[6] He belonged to the New England Art Union[7] and the Boston Art Club.[8]

References

  1. Boston Directory. 1851, 1857
  2. Boston Almanac. 1870
  3. John William Reps. Views and viewmakers of urban America: lithographs of towns and cities in the United States and Canada, notes on the artists and publishers, and a union catalog of their work, 1825-1925. University of Missouri Press, 1984
  4. Barbara Novak. American painting of the nineteenth century: realism, idealism, and the American experience. Oxford University Press US, 2007
  5. Destructive Fire. Boston Daily Atlas; Date: 04-01-1852
  6. Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, July 1855
  7. Bulletin of the New England Art Union, No. 1 (1852)
  8. New York Times, March 5, 1907

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