Samuel Prout

Place: Plymouth

Born: 1783

Death: 1852

Biography:

Samuel Prout (/praʊt/ 17 September 1783 – 10 February 1852) was one of the masters of British watercolour architectural painting. Prout secured the position of Painter in Water-Colours in Ordinary to King George IV in 1829 and afterwards to Queen Victoria. John Ruskin, whose work often emulated Prout's, wrote in 1844, "Sometimes I tire of Turner, b...