Richard T. Scott (born 1980) is an American history painter and writer living and working in the Hudson Valley, New York.

[4] His current body of work explores the historical origins and legacy of systemic and social discrimination as well as gun violence in American Culture.

His second major work "New Amsterdam", which traces the legacy of slavery in America from the Dutch settlers to mass incarceration, was unveiled at Spalding Nix Fine Art in Atlanta, GA in February 2018.

[7] Donald Kuspit has said that "Adam Miller, David Molesky and Richard T. Scott are what I have called New Old Masters; that is, they use Old Master styles to mediate modern reality and to give emotional and cognitive depth to events that the mass media would treat superficially (one more momentarily hot news story, here today, gone tomorrow)".

[9] Scott is a proponent of an alternative philosophical superstructure for figurative painting, which he calls a Post-contemporary paradigm, separate from that of the Contemporary Art world.