Samuel Bough

Samuel Bough was an English-born landscape painter who spent much of his career working in Scotland. He came to be considered to be one of the most influential and prolific Scottish landscape painters of the 19th century. Sam Bough was self-taught and successful in both oils and watercolours, and was committed to depicting a wide variety of landscape views and effects, urban and rural, bright days and dark storms. However, there are specific locations and landscapes that Bough returns to regularly in his work; the hustle and bustle of harbours and coastal towns, with the distinctive Newhaven harbour a particular favourite, and the hunting forest of Cadzow, near Hamilton.

Image: Samuel Bough by James Faed the Elder, after Sir Daniel Macnee
© National Portrait Gallery, London