“A perfect understanding and sympathy with a single friend of twenty years' standing is something more not less than solitude.”
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…