SCOTT, Henry

1911 - 2005

Henry Scott was born on 24 July 1911. A painter of marine and coastal subjects, honorary member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. As well as painting shipping portraits he also executed several works of British and American clippers and in 1970 was commissioned to paint 'Morning Cloud' which was skippered and owned by the then Prime Minister, Edward Heath (1916–2005). Scott was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and awarded an honorary Life Membership in the Cape Homers Society by the International Association of Master Mariners. He exhibited at the Royal Society of Marine Artists, the Royal Exchange Gallery, London, the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, and was represented by the MacConnal-Mason Gallery at 14 Duke Street, St. James's in London he also exhibited at the St. Malo Museum, France and at Madison Square in New York. Henry Scott donated a painting to the Southwold Sailors' Reading Room and died on 15 October 2005.

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