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David Scott, William Bell Scott (1832). Credit: National Galleries of Scotland and The Public Catalogue Foundation.
Edinburgh.
William Bell Scott’s father, Robert, was a successful engraver in Edinburgh. Scott entered the Trustees Academy, an art school in Edinburgh, in 1827, and studied there under Sir William Allan. Scott’s elder brother, David Scott, was also a painter, and his work in a Romantic grand manner had a significant influence on his brother.
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As a young man, William Bell Scott worked in his father’s engraving business. He greatly admired the second-generation Romantic poets Shelley and Keats, and began to write his own poetry, encouraged by John Wilson, who wrote for Blackwood’s Magazine under the pseudonym of Christopher North.
London. In 1837, at the age of 25, Scott moved to London.
He supported himself mainly by