Montague Scott

Last updated

Montagu Scott
Born
Eugene Montagu Scott

1835
London
Died15 May 1909
Randwick, New South Wales
Resting place Waverley Cemetery
33°54′26″S151°15′51″E / 33.907287°S 151.264197°E / -33.907287; 151.264197
NationalityBritish
EducationPainter
Known forPainting, photography, illustration,cartoons
Notable workA day's picnic on Clark Island, Sydney Harbour, 1870, ML 3
Spouse(s)Amy Ann Johnson (1839-1879), Annie Ware Wilton, Mary Ellen Price

Montague Scott (1835-1909), also known as "Montagu Scott", was a London born artist, photographer and cartoonist. He emigrated to Australia 1855 and was the official photographer for the Duke of Edinburgh's visit in 1868. He was cartoonist for the Sydney Punch from 1866 to 1886.

Contents

Career

Duke of Edinburgh, Alfred Ernest Albert, Sydney, ca. 1868, by Montagu Scott Duke of Edinburgh, Alfred Ernest Albert, ca. 1868, Montagu Scott.jpg
Duke of Edinburgh, Alfred Ernest Albert, Sydney, ca. 1868, by Montagu Scott

Scott was born Eugene Montagu Scott, the youngest son of William Scott R.A. [1] and his wife Sarah née Myles [2] in London and in the mid-1850s emigrated to Melbourne via New Zealand. He spent some time prospecting for gold but found it unrewarding. [3]

While working for a photographic studio in Melbourne around 1860 he, like John A. Upton, was introduced by Dr. T. A. Hill to the art of photograph colouring. [4] and studied painting under the "celebrated painter Ansdel", [5] presumably Richard Ansdell.

He moved to Sydney in 1866, initially working for the photographer Thomas Felton, [5] then around 1867 he took over Freeman Brothers' photographic studios at 392 George Street, naming it the "Sydney and Melbourne Photographic Gallery".

He was appointed official photographer for Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh's visit in 1868 [6] and was commissioned by Henry Parkes to paint a full-size portrait of the Duke. [7] Photographs of the Duke were offered for sale to the public by both Montagu Scott and William Bradley of 140 Pitt Street. [8] But by 1870 he was bankrupt and forced to sell his equipment [2] and the business was taken over by Newman and Co. [9]

Montague Scott. Captain Cook. Illustrated Sydney News. ca. 1870 Montague Scott - Captain Cook.jpg
Montague Scott. Captain Cook. Illustrated Sydney News. ca. 1870

He produced some lithographs illustrating news items [10] and in 1871 was the first artist to work for the Sydney Mail. [11] Other lithographs included a souvenir of the return of the New South Wales Contingent to the Sudan, featuring portraits of W. B. Dalley, Colonel Richardson and Lieutenant Spalding. [12]

A days picnic on Clark Island Sydney Harbour 1870 Montagu Scott A days picnic on Clark Island Sydney Harbour 1870 Montagu Scott a3449002.jpg
A days picnic on Clark Island Sydney Harbour 1870 Montagu Scott

In 1878 he was on stage in Sydney, drawing "lightning" caricatures of politicians including Sir Hercules Robinson and Sir Henry Parkes, [13] then in both Melbourne and Sydney, illustrating passages from the Scriptures. [14]

He was cartoonist for Melbourne Punch for two years, succeeding M. Chevallier, [1] then for Sydney Punch from 1866 to 1886 [2] or perhaps less. [15] notably caricatures of Archbishop Polding [16] and Sir Edward Deas-Thomson. [17] and for the Australian Town and Country Journal. An example of his work may be seen here."Champions of the Willow"

Other paintings included The Death of Kennedy, [18] A days picnic on Clark Island Sydney Harbour 1870 Montagu Scott (severely panned by one critic), [19] and donated to the Mitchell Library in 1930, [2] a grim Justice, [20] and The Last Match. [21]

He also produced dioramas, [22] illustrated books and acted in dramatic productions.

He moved to Brisbane in 1887, [23] working for the Brisbane Worker as an illustrator for its sports pages, and for the Brisbane Boomerang. [1] He returned to Sydney around 1895. Work was becoming scarce as photographs displaced etchings in the newspapers and magazines and by 1908 he was again bankrupt. [2]

Portraits

Apart from Duke of Edinburgh (for which he charged 250 guineas [23] ), Scott also painted large oil portraits of:

In later life his major commissions were for equine portraits. [28] [29] [30]

Family life

On 20 July 1857 he married Amy Ann Johnson (ca.1839 – 15 September 1879). They had three children:

He married again, to Annie Ware Wilton on 28 October 1880. [32]

On 5 December 1889 he remarried, this time to Mary Ellen Price, née Mehan. [2]

He died, bankrupt and stone deaf, [33] at his home at Randwick, New South Wales on Saturday 15 May 1909. [34]

Bibliography

Gibson, G. Herbert (1846–1921) Southerly busters by Ironbark, profusely illustrated by Alfred Clint, with additional illustrations by Montagu Scott. John Sands, Sydney 1878

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kirribilli House</span> Secondary official residence of the Prime Minister of Australia

Kirribilli House is the secondary official residence of the Prime Minister of Australia. Located in the Sydney harbourside suburb of Kirribilli, New South Wales, the house is at the far eastern end of Kirribilli Avenue. It is one of two official Prime Ministerial residences, the primary official residence being The Lodge in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The house, gardens and grounds are listed on the Commonwealth Heritage List.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Henry Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden</span> Governor of New South Wales (1841–1906)

Henry Robert Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden, was Governor of New South Wales from 1895 to 1899.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Bede Polding</span> Australian archbishop (1794–1877)

John Bede Polding, OSB was the first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harold Cazneaux</span> Australian photographer

Harold Pierce Cazneaux, commonly referred to as H. P. Cazneaux, was an Australian photographer; a pioneer whose style had an indelible impact on Australian photographic history. In 1916, he was a founding member of the Pictorialist Sydney Camera Circle. As a regular participator in national and international exhibitions, Cazneaux was unfaltering in his desire to contribute to the discussion about the photography of his times. His career between the Wars established him as "the country's leading pictorial photographer".

David Moore was an Australian photojournalist, historian of Australian photography, and initiator of the Australian Centre for Photography.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Raymond Longford</span> Australian filmmaker and actor (1878–1959)

Raymond Longford was a prolific Australian film director, writer, producer, and actor during the silent era. Longford was a major director of the silent film era of the Australian cinema. He formed a production team with Lottie Lyell. His contributions to Australian cinema with his ongoing collaborations with Lyell, including The Sentimental Bloke (1919) and The Blue Mountains Mystery (1921), prompted the Australian Film Institute's AFI Raymond Longford Award, inaugurated in 1968, to be named in his honour.

Reynolds Mark Ellis was an Australian social and social documentary photographer. He also worked, at various stages of his life, as an advertising copywriter, seaman, lecturer, television presenter and founder of Brummels Gallery of Photography, Australia's first dedicated photography gallery, where he established both a photographic studio and an agency dedicated to his work, published 17 photographic books, and held numerous exhibitions in Australia and overseas.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arthur Shirley</span> Australian actor

Arthur Shirley was an Australian actor, writer, producer, and director of theatre and film. He experienced some success as a film actor in Hollywood between 1914 and 1920.

<i>Moonlite</i> 1910 film

Moonlite is a 1910 bushranger film about Captain Moonlite, played by John Gavin, who also directed. It was also known as Captain Moonlite and is considered a lost film.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alfred Rolfe (director)</span>

Alfred Rolfe, real name Alfred Roker, was an Australian stage and film director and actor, best known for being the son-in-law of the celebrated actor-manager Alfred Dampier, with whom he appeared frequently on stage, and for his prolific output as a director during Australia's silent era, including Captain Midnight, the Bush King (1911), Captain Starlight, or Gentleman of the Road (1911) and The Hero of the Dardanelles (1915). Only one of his films as director survives today.

The Cup Winner is a 1911 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe. It is set against a backdrop of horseracing and the finale involves real footage from the 1911 Melbourne Cup.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Townsend Duryea</span>

Townsend Duryea and his brother Sanford Duryea were American-born photographers who provided South Australians with invaluable images of life in the early colony. Their parents were Ann Bennett Duryea (1795–1882), and Hewlett K. Duryea (1794–1887), a land agent, possibly a member of the family well known for starch manufacture in Glen Cove, Long Island, in New York City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">P. W. Vaughan</span>

Percy William Vaughan, known as Colonel Vaughan, was a bank manager and officer in the Australian Army.

Clyde Bowman Pearce was an Australian amateur golfer. He won both the Australian Open and the Australian Amateur in 1908 and was runner-up in the Australian Amateur three times. He was killed in Belgium during World War I.

Henry Neville Montagu M.A. (Oxon), Ph.D. was a journalist and newspaper proprietor in Australia.

Gladstone Eyre was an Australian portrait artist and landscape painter around Sydney, New South Wales and Launceston, Tasmania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Joseph Charles Lambert, generally referred to as J. C. Lambert, was an English comic actor who had a significant career in Australia.

William Dind was an hotelier and theatre manager in Sydney, Australia, where he was the longtime lessee of the Royal Victoria, and Prince of Wales theatres. He settled on Sydney's North Shore, where he was active in local government, and he and his son William Forster Dind, aka W. Forster Dind or William Dind jun, ran hotels which were popular with theatrical people.

Joseph John Henry Leonard was an Australian newspaper illustrator, whose work first appeared in the Adelaide satirical weeklies, signed variously as "J. H. Leonard", "Leo", or simply "JL".

George Alfred Russell was an Australian businessman involved in several business ventures, finally acting as Australian manager for the North British Insurance Company.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Personal". The Advertiser . Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 19 May 1909. p. 6. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Edgar, Suzanne, 'Scott, Eugene Montagu (Monty) (1835–1909)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 28 May 2012
  3. ↑ "Eugene Montagu Scott :: Biography at :: At Design and Art Australia Online".
  4. ↑ "The Late Dr. T. A. Hill". South Australian Register . Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 4 June 1897. p. 6. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  5. 1 2 "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 16 February 1865. p. 2. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  6. ↑ "Retrospect". Illustrated Sydney News . National Library of Australia. 25 March 1868. p. 1. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  7. ↑ "Summary". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 1 May 1868. p. 2. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  8. ↑ "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 29 February 1868. p. 2. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  9. ↑ "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 29 July 1871. p. 6. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  10. ↑ "Death of Thunderbolt". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 6 June 1870. p. 1. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  11. ↑ McCulloch, Alan Encyclopedia of Australian Art 1968 Hutchinson of London ISBN   978-0-09-081420-6
  12. ↑ "News of the Day". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 29 June 1885. p. 7. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  13. ↑ "Amusements". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 21 August 1878. p. 5. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  14. ↑ "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 1 March 1879. p. 1. Retrieved 28 May 2012. This reference cites a number of favourable reviews.
  15. ↑ "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 8 March 1875. p. 8. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  16. 1 2 "FINE ARTS". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 9 March 1877. p. 8. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  17. ↑ "The Sydney Morning Herald". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 10 August 1877. p. 4. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  18. ↑ "New South Wales Academy of Art". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 17 April 1873. p. 5. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  19. ↑ "Fine Arts". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 1 September 1870. p. 5. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  20. ↑ "Agricultural Society's Exhibition". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 8 May 1872. p. 7. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  21. ↑ "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 9 December 1893. p. 14. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  22. ↑ "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 30 August 1872. p. 8. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  23. 1 2 "Montagu Scott :: Biography at :: At Design and Art Australia Online".
  24. ↑ "Portrait of Mr. Richard Driver, M.L.A." The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 12 March 1874. p. 7. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  25. ↑ "To the Editor of the Herald". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 21 November 1868. p. 7. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  26. ↑ "Sporting Intelligence". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 13 August 1898. p. 12. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  27. ↑ "The Sydney Morning Herald". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 5 July 1892. p. 4. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  28. ↑ "Sporting Intelligence – The Turf". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 6 February 1893. p. 3. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  29. ↑ "Notes and Anticipations". Australian Town and Country Journal . NSW: National Library of Australia. 10 December 1892. p. 36. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  30. ↑ "Notes and Anticipations". Australian Town and Country Journal . NSW: National Library of Australia. 29 April 1893. p. 37. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  31. ↑ "Personal". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 17 May 1909. p. 6. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  32. ↑ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 30 November 1880. p. 1. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  33. ↑ "Bankruptcy Court". The Sydney Morning Herald . National Library of Australia. 15 September 1908. p. 5. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  34. ↑ "PERSONAL". The Mercury . Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 21 May 1909. p. 5. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.