John White Allen Scott
American (1815-1907)
At fifteen years of age, John White Allen Scott began his career at the Boston lithography firm of William Pendleton, working alongside two great figures of American art history: lithographer Nathaniel Currier and marine artist Fitz Henry Lane. Lane and Scott partnered in their own firm during the mid 1840s at roughly the same time that Scott began exhibiting paintings in the city. He settled into the Cambridge home that would be his residence for over half a century, and began working seriously as a fine artist from his second-floor studio. His works became constant additions to Boston Athenaeum and Boston Art Club exhibitions, as well as at local gallery shows throughout the area. By 1905, Scott had outlived all other members of the Boston Art Club, and he was still actively drawing and painting well into his nineties.
Scott’s paintings are held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; the Farnsworth art Museum, Rockland, Maine; the New Hampshire Historical Society and The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio.
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