Amy Scott (1860-1950)

.Amy Scott (1860-1950). Scott was a British figure, landscape and still life painter who lived in London and Brighton. She exhibited 1881-1905. There were four generations of local artists; her father John Henderson Scott (1829-1886), her grandfather William Henry Scott (1782-1850) and her great grandfather Edmund Scott (1758-1915) and she followed in their footsteps.  The family archive was left to Hove Museum in the will of Amy Scott. The Scotts lived at 59 Brunswick Road, Hove, Brighton for more than three decades. A few years after her father died,  around 1890,  Amy had her own studio at 1 Silwood Terrace, Brighton and also gave art classes from there. One of her still life oils  is in the Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries collection, as is her portrait, aged 85 years old, by artist Harry Robert Mileham. In 1988 The Brighton & Hove Museum and AG, had an exhibition devoted to the Scott family, including a painting by Amy Scott. She died in Brighton in 1950 at the age of 90.
Exhibited: Manchester City Art Gallery 2, Royal Academy 3, Royal Society of British Artists 4, Royal Institute of Painters of Watercolours 1, Royal Institute of Oil Painters 3, Society of Women Artists 11.