“I was apart from these and from everything else; I was naked, as it…” — William Bell Scott

“I was apart from these and from everything else; I was naked, as it were, and alone in an antagonistic creation, accountable to myself only for preservation and well-being.”

Recalling an early awakening to individuality and isolation · Autobiographical Notes, Vol. I, Chapter III

William Bell Scott

About William Bell Scott

12 September 1811–22 November 1890

William Bell Scott was born in Edinburgh on 12 September 1811, into a family in which art was both a livelihood and an atmosphere. He was the eldest surviving son of Robert Scott, an engraver of considerable skill and a man of strong intellectual interests, and Ross Bell Scott. The household was not wealthy, but it…

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