1800s SAMUEL SCOTT Historic Engraving "The 1745 London Bridge" SIGNED Framed COA

Description: --> Four Centuries of the world's finest artists from our collection to yours --> Thank you for visiting... Click here for HOT DEALS | Click here for our NO RESERVE AUCTIONS Please feel free to ask any questions you might have about this work and we will answer promptly.International bidders are always welcome to bid and we combine shipping on all orders. --> Artist: Samuel Scott (British, 1702 – 1772)Title: London Bridge, 1745 (A View of London Bridge before the Late Alterations) Medium: Antique Engraving on wove paper after the original oil on canvas by master engraver James Baylis Allen (British, 1803-1876). Year: 1853 Signature: Signed in the plate Condition: ExcellentDimensions: Image Size 6 1/4 x 10 3/8 inches. Framed dimensions: Approximately 15 x 20 inches. Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials. Additional notes: This is not a modern print. This impression is more than 160 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp. The original oil on canvas is part of the Tate Collection. Extra Information: London Bridge before the alterations of 1760; the bridge, covered with houses, with two boats dipping their masts to pass under the arches, a large ship on the right and several small boats in the foreground, including men fishing from a rectangular platform on the left. London Bridge was taken shortly before the demolition of its buildings in 1760. Several versions of the picture exist and it was also engraved, evidence of its popularity and people's nostalgia for the way the bridge used to look. One of London's great landmarks, inevitably it had undergone extensive alterations in its 650 year history. Due to fire and decay, buildings had been demolished and rebuilt. However, the features Scott depicts are all identifiable. On the left is the Great Stone Gateway; in the middle a group of houses, known as 'The Middle', with roof gardens; and on the far left 'The Piazza', a group of elegant colonnaded shops. Through the masts of the ship the Monument can be seen. Artist Biography: Samuel Scott was a British landscape painter known for his riverside scenes and seascapes. Scott was born in London, and began painting in around 1720, Nothing is known of his artistic training. He started as a maritime artist, painting men-of-war and other ships on calm seas in the style of Willem van de Velde, many of whose drawings he owned. He also painted a set of six pictures of settlements owned by the East India Company in collaboration with George Lambert. Scott painted the ships, Lambert the buildings and landscape. Writing in 1733, George Vertue included Scott among London's "most elevated men in art". From 27–31 May 1732 he made a celebrated "Five days' Peregrination" to the Isle of Sheppey in company with William Hogarth and others. An account of their trip was written by Ebenezer Forrest and published in 1782, illustrated with drawings by Hogarth and Scott. In the early 1740s, Scott began making sketches of London, especially of the new Westminster Bridge, then under construction, When, following the arrival of Canaletto in London in 1746, paintings of views of the city became fashionable, he began working the sketches up into oil paintings. He painted at least eleven versions of a view of Old London Bridge, the earliest dating from 1747. Scott continued to paint copies of it after 1757, when the houses lining the bridge, shown in the painting had been demolished. The London Bridge pictures were often painted as one of a pair, with an image of the Tower of London or Westminster Bridge as a pendant. Between 1761 and 1771 he exhibited three works at the Society of Artists, one at the Free Society of artists, and one, A View of the Tower of London, at the Royal Academy in 1771. He was one of the early draughtsmen in watercolours, and was called the father of English watercolour, but his chief works were in oil. Some of Scott's most celebrated paintings were his depictions of scenes during the War of Jenkins' Ear. Vice Admiral Sir George Anson's Victory off Cape Finisterre, 1749. Scott earned a considerable reputation for his shore and river scenes, which were well-drawn and painted, and enlivened with figures. Horace Walpole, who had a large collection of his works, said that they "will charm in every age" and that "if he was second to Vandeveldt in sea pieces, he excelled him in variety." His views of London Bridge, the Custom-house Quay, and other pictures of the Thames earned him the name "the English Canaletto". Scott lived at number 2 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, overlooking the Piazza at Covent Garden, from 1747 to 1758. He moved to Twickenham in 1758, and then to Ludlow, where his daughter was living, before retiring to Bath, where he died in Walcot Street, of gout, in October 1772, leaving an only daughter. His collection of drawings, prints etc., was sold by Langford in January 1773. William Marlow (1740-1813) and the animal painter Sawrey Gilpin (1733–1807) were his pupils. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and is Fully Guaranteed to be Certified as Described Framing Any framing included in a listing is double matted and framed in a solid wood moulding. We can also frame any pieces not listed as such. Please contact us for pricing. We are usually half the price of a regular framer. Shipping Packages are shipped the next business day after confirmed payment is received. 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