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William Bell Scott

1811 - 1890

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William Bell Scott (12 September 1811 – 22 November 1890) was a Scottish artist in oils and watercolour and occasionally printmaking. He was also a poet and art teacher, and his posthumously published reminiscences give a chatty and often vivid picture of life in the circle of the Pre-Raphaelites; he was especially close to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. After growing up in Edinburgh, he moved to London, and from 1843 to 1864 was principal of the government School of Art in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he added industrial subjects to his repertoire of landscapes and history painting. He was one of the first British artists to extensively depict the processes of the Industrial Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). William Bell Scott is the 6,118th most popular writer (down from 5,980th in 2024), the 5,174th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,815th in 2019) and the 567th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, William Bell Scott ranks 6,118 out of 7,302. Before him are John Betjeman, Dorothy E. Smith, Federico Moccia, Frank Schätzing, Ernest Lehman, and Ğäliäsğar Kamal. After him are Paul Arène, Michael Lewis, Albert Kivikas, David Mitchell, Paul Scott, and Jean Dutourd.

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Among people born in 1811, William Bell Scott ranks 76. Before him are Alfred Domett, Charles Sumner, Juan Bautista Ceballos, Francisco Javier Zaldúa, George Caleb Bingham, and Luis González-Bravo y López de Arjona. After him are Thomas C. Jerdon, William Henry Harvey, John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, John Kilian, John Bright, and Wendell Phillips. Among people deceased in 1890, William Bell Scott ranks 71. Before him are John Francis Davis, Catherine Booth, Émile Léonard Mathieu, Carl Jacob Löwig, Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, and Philip Francis Thomas. After him is Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Bell Scott ranks 5,176 out of 8,785. Before him are Raymond Briggs (1934), John Garstang (1876), Howard Kendall (1946), Justin Hayward (1946), Peter Cook (1936), and Bryan Forbes (1926). After him are Mike Hodges (1932), Dan Crenshaw (1984), Tom Bridger (1934), Simone Ashley (1995), Samuel Plimsoll (1824), and Stanley Sadie (1930).

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Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Bell Scott ranks 567. Before him are Mina Loy (1882), Terence Rattigan (1911), Izaak Walton (1593), Pauline Baynes (1922), John Betjeman (1906), and Dorothy E. Smith (1926). After him are David Mitchell (1969), Paul Scott (1920), Bernice Rubens (1923), James Herbert (1943), John of Worcester (1100), and John Barbour (1316).

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