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Artist: William Bell Scott (1811 - 1890)
Nationality: British
Movement:
Media: Painting
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Biography:
William Bell Scott was a Scottish painter and poet. From 1843 to 1864, he was the head of the Government School of Design in Newcastle. His best paintings were done there and consisted of a series that depicted Northumbrian history. Bell was a personal friend of Rossetti and his work bears similarities to the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Scott also wrote many poems and several books on art.


Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
William Bell Scott, The Norns, plate 3 in the book, The Etcher (London: Williams and Norgate, 1879), vol. 1, 1879
Museum of Fine Arts -
William Bell Scott, English, 1811-1890 Messengers of Summer 1841 Watercolor on paper Sheet: 11.2 x
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
William Bell, Teaspoon, 1816
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William Bell Scott - Incoming Tide on the Northumberland Coast 1861 oil on canvas Ackland Art Museum British
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John Vanderlyn - Mary Ellis Bell (Mrs. Issac Bell) c. 1827 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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William Henry Fox Talbot - The Scott Monument, Edinburgh, in the Course of Construction 1844 salted-paper print f Cincinnati Art Museum British
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: William Bell Title: Canon of Kanab Wash, Colorado River, Looking North Date: about 1872
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Joseph Mallord William Turner, One from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Joseph Mallord William Turner, One from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: William Bell Title: Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, Looking West Date: 1872 Medium:
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Melrose from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Caerlaverock from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Melrose from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Carlisle from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Edinburgh from Scott"s Poetical Works vol 7; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Ashestiel from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Kelso from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Lochmaber (?) Castle from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Smailholm (?) Tower from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Ledburgh Abbey from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Loch CarisKin from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Berwick upon Tweed from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Bowes River from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Greta & Tees from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Loch Acbray from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Loch Katrine from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Newark Castle from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Browneside Tower from Scott"s Poetical Works Vol 5; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Dryburgh Abbey from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Hermitage Castle from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Berwick upon Tweed from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Berwick upon Tweed from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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William Henry Fox Talbot, Sir Walter Scott"s Monument, Edinburgh, proof for pl. 2 of the book Sun Pictures in Scotland (published 1845), 1844
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Johnny Armstrong"s Tower from Scott"s Poetical Works; a series of 24 etchings, 1833
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William Luson Thomas, General Winfield Scott, Commander in Chief of the United States Forces., 19th - 20th century
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Winslow Homer - The Morning Bell 1873 Wood Engraving Arizona State University Museum
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David Octavius Hill - Mrs. Bell of Madras c. 1844 salted-paper print f Cincinnati Art Museum British
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Thomas Gainsborough - Ralph Bell 1772-74 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art British
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Peter Busa - Mariner's Bell 1962 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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Gian Girolamo Grandi - Hand Bell n.d. bronze The Frick Collection Italian

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Art Gallery of Hamilton: Marian Dale Scott, 1906 - 1993: Pioneer of Modern Art
This retrospective exhibition brings together over sixty paintings and works from experiments in a figurative modern language to pure abstraction. Particular attention is paid to Scott's work from the thirties and ...

3RD i GALLERY: InterActive Art Works
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Bishop's University: The Starving Can’t Eat Stone
Inspired by the monument to the 10,000 Irish emigrants who died in the 1840’s quarantine station of Grosse-Ile, Scott MacLeod’s figurative paintings and drawings are a reminder of the pain, suffering and death of so many who did not survive their...

Annie Su Gallery: Harvey Scott Kaner: Re-nude
Artist Statement:

My work today is the result of years of experimentation with various media, including stone, bronze, plaster, clay, and found objects. Inspired by nature, the ultimate designer -- along with the creations of great artists an...
Fraser Gallery: Art and Technology
The exhibition includes work by Kathryn Cornelius, Claire Watkins, Scott Hutchison, Thomas Edwards, David Page and others. "We seek to explore and to show," says Fraser, "what happens when talented and creative individuals, with a proven reco...

photoza: Myopic Visions-Italian Landscapes by Scott Brightwell
"5 years ago I transferred my home to central Italy. This new landscape, with dramatic light and soft pastel palettes, inspired a reawakening to experience the landscape through the lens formed image. In this ongoing body of work, I have contin...

Oakville Galleries: Fuzzy at Centennial Square
Fuzzy explores the loving and playful exchanges between artists and their pets. The artists have in common an emotional engagement with their pets and view them as equal and loving participants in a cooperative dynamic to explore issues of identit...

Frye Art Museum: Scott B. Goodwillie: Figuring the Forces
Painting in a realist style, Goodwillie combines smooth, studied Dutch brushstrokes with more edgy, contemporary subjects to create works that are both classically masterful and modern in mood. His Figuring the Forces exhibition features canvases ...

Pan American Art Gallery: International Guild of Realism Juried Exhibition
Participating artists:
Tom Cardamone
Larry Charles
Don Clapper (founding member of the Guild of Realism)
Dan Di Maria
(Rouaud) Isabelle du Toit (local)
Camille Engel
Ken Fuller
Albino Hinojosa
Lorena Kl...

Artemisia: Five exhibitions to open friday
CHRISTINE LoFASO, THE BODY PROJECT For several years LoFaso has worked with a range of media as a means of conveying ideas about the body and its many guises: social, political, sexual, psychological, spiritual.  In the summer of 2000, she develo...

Colored Pencil Society of America: Call for Artists: Explore This 3
Open to all artists 18 years +, regardless of geographic location. Entry fees are nonrefundable. No preferential consideration is made during the judging process between members and nonmembers. Artist may submit one 35 mm slide for each 2-dimensio...

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens: RUTH WEISBERG: CANTO V: A WHIRLWIND OF LOVERS
In Weisberg's monumental painting---a pensive exploration of the nature of passion and love---couples come together but remain emotionally separate, suggesting that despite the intensity of the moment in which the lovers should be transported, t...

Jessica Murray Projects: Moron by Scott Teplin / Spin Cycle by Jeff Scher


futuremaybe: Oni Exhibitions
Scott Alberg, an MFA candidate at The Museum School, will be making his debut in futuremaybe with plastine sculptures of the Space Shuttle Challengerís explosion. His objects refer to an adolescent obsession with expositions and outer spac...

Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre: 2005 Ranamok Glass Prize
Finalists include: Helen Aitken-Kuhnen, Christian Arnold, Nicole Ayliffe, Joanna Bone, Lee Brogan, Rozlyn de Bussey, Emma Camden, Scott Chaseling, Cobi Cockburn, Rod Coleman, Scott Coleman, Matthew Curtis, Tali Dalton, Evelyn Dunstan, Nicola Edwar...

Portland Museum of Art: Degas, Rodin, and Moore: Bronzes by European Masters
The exhibition offers a varied sampling of bronze sculpture, mostly small scale and predominantly French and German, that chronicles nearly a century of activity. The earliest bronzes to be included date to the 1880s, such as Degas’s Fourth Posit...

David Scott Gallery: Pregnant Women Series
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Red Gate Gallery: Drawing Dust - Altitude: Works by Catherine Woo, Damian Smith, Jayne Dyer, Karen Casey, Martin King, Tony Scott
Evocative of stillness, a slowing down of time, of neglect and decay dust settles, drifts, gathers and protects. Seeking solitude and contemplation, artists have long sought the remoteness of the bush and the desert, their voice and vision trav...

Almont Gallery: The Elemental Earth: Works by Gallery Artists
This exhibition continues through the end of January.IMAGE
Mike Fillus-Sherman
White Pot
raku fired ceramic
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Royal Festival Hall: MELTDOWN PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
Simon Leigh is the first photographer to be given full access to document the Meltdown festival which is now in its eighth year and has grown to become the South Bank's highest-profile and biggest-selling festival. Every year Melt...

Portland Museum of Art: Local Color: Six Contemporary Photographers
For most of its history as an art form, color photography has been viewed with suspicion. While color film was available as early as the mid-1930s, it was not widely used in art until the late 1960s. Early pioneers in color, like Ernst Haas and E...

Irish Museum of Modern Art: A Vision of Modern Art in Memory of Dorothy Walker
The exhibition is, fittingly, curated by a fellow writer and art critic Ciarán Bennett, who has made Dorothy Walker’s time as an outstanding art critic, from 1968 to 1982, the focal point of the show. This period was associated not only with the ...

National Ornamental Metal Museum: Some Like It Hot
Large scale pieces will be represented by photographs         adjacent to the displayed smaller pieces by the following artists:     John Medwedeff
Joe Bonifas
Nol Putnam
Philip Baldwin
Japh Howard
Bernie Hosey
Scott L...

Cafe Moskau - Cultural Center: Janinebean Gallery Shows Works by International Artists
A group exhibition with Karsten Krause/Germany, Sebstian Heiner/Germany, Mirko Tzotschew/Bulgaria/Germany, Scott Weiner/USA, Corinna Weiner (winner of the big art prize Berlin)/Germany, Pavel Forman/Czech Republic, Jumping Bean/Germany, Micos Mein...

Artspeak: unlocal: Gabor Koleszar and Jane Lee - Photographic Works; Howard Ursuliak: Text
unlocal is a project involving three Vancouver photographers connected through their engagement with a discreet observation of the material world and for whom photography maintains its status as document to the real. The exhibition will feature ne...

ARTworkSF - Mezzanine Gallery: San Francisco Sun Up to Sun Down
The warmth of day as the sun moves across The Citys verigated landscape, touching landmark structures and diverse neighborhoods along its path, gives way to the glow of night as the moon provides a backlight for life after sunset. As movement of...

Art Gallery of Hamilton: Modern Woman: Women Artists between the Wars
Recently discovered but in serious need of repair, a stunning painting has been restored to its former glory and added to the Art Gallery of Hamilton's permanent collection.  A Northern Railway Town, Lake Superior c. 1935 by Rody Kenny Courtice (C...

Museum of Arts and Sciences: Crossing the Threshold with Thelma and Louise
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American Craft Museum: Stop Asking/We Exist: 25 African American Craft Artists
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Carnegie Museum of Art: Out of the Ordinary: The Architecture and Design of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates
Venturi Scott Brown and Associates (VSBA) is known for combining design elements in unexpected ways-an approach that has spurred some to include Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown among the founders of architectural Post modernism. Though t...

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