Biography

Samuel Bough (1822-78), landscape and marine painter, was born on 8 January 1822 at Abbey Street, Carlisle. Bough became a professional artist in Carlisle, struggling to make a living there until 1845, when he went to Manchester as an assistant scene painter. Despite winning the Heywood silver medal for the best watercolour at the Manchester Exhibition of 1847 Bough had little financial success and took up another scene painting job in Glasgow in 1849. His first major work, The Baggage Waggons (1849; Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle), was also painted in 1849. In 1854 Bough moved to Port Glasgow in order to improve his technique in drawing ships and boats. In 1855 Bough moved to Edinburgh. He met with early success at the Royal Scottish Academy exhibitions and was elected an associate in 1856. He died, at Jordan Bank Villa, his home in Morningside, Edinburgh, on 19 November 1878 of cancer of the prostate.

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