Samuel Prout
ARTISTSamuel Prout was a British watercolourist, and one of the masters of watercolour architectural painting, who largely invented the genre of the grand street scene in British watercolour painting, mostly with picturesque scenes from continental cities. Prout secured the position of Painter in Water-Colours in Ordinary to King George IV in 1829 and afterwards to Queen Victoria. John Ruskin, whose work often emulated Prout's, wrote in 1844, "Sometimes I tire of Turner, but never of Prout". Prout is often compared to his contemporaries: Turner, Constable and Ruskin, whom he taught. He was the uncle of the artist John Skinner Prout.
moreBiography adapted from Wikipedia: Samuel Prout (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Samuel Prout, wall art & digital downloads
2 works by Samuel Prout (British, 1783–1852) are catalogued on Archive Lane, free to preview and available to download or order as a print.
Samuel Prout was a British watercolourist, and one of the masters of watercolour architectural painting, who largely invented the genre of the grand street scene in British watercolour painting, mostly with picturesque scenes from continental cities. Prout secured the position of Painter in Water-Colours in Ordinary to King George IV in 1829 and afterwards to Queen Victoria. John Ruskin, whose work often emulated Prout's, wrote in 1844, "Sometimes I tire of Turner, but never of Prout". Prout is often compared to his contemporaries: Turner, Constable and Ruskin, whom he taught. He was the uncle of the artist John Skinner Prout.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
At a glance
Most of Samuel Prout's work on the site falls under Drawings (74), Landscape (73), Prints (59).
By movement, it's catalogued as Romanticism (184), Neoclassicism (23).
Culture: English (207).
By orientation: 96 landscape, 109 portrait, 2 square.
Other British artists of the period
Artists from the same country and generation, also in the archive:
- George Cruikshank — 381 artworks
- James Gillray — 378 artworks
- Edward Lear — 316 artworks
- Anna Atkins — 313 artworks
- Sir John Tenniel — 240 artworks
- Francis Seymour Haden — 237 artworks
- Thomas Girtin — 152 artworks
- Hablot Knight Browne — 145 artworks
Prints of these artworks
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Sizes and framing
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