Sam Bough

Samuel Bough RSA (8 January 1822 – 19 November 1878) was an English-born landscape painter who spent much of his career working in Scotland.

[1] He was born the third of five children in Abbey Street, Carlisle in northern England, the son of James Bough (1794-1845), a shoemaker, and Lucy Walker, a cook.

After an unsuccessful attempt to live as an artist in Carlisle he obtained a job and as a theatre scenery painter in Manchester in 1845, later also working in Glasgow in the same role.

Examples include St. Andrews (Noble Grossart) and The Dreadnought from Greenwich Stairs: Sun Sinking into Vapour (1861, private collection).

He died of prostate cancer at his later home,[citation needed] Jordan Bank Villa in Morningside, on the south side of the city.

Sam Bough - 1878
Dysart Harbour in 1854 by Sam Bough RSA, National Gallery of Scotland
Off St Andrews by Sam Bough (1856, oil on canvas), National Galleries of Scotland
The grave of Sam Bough, Dean Cemetery
Dhu Heartach Lighthouse, During Construction by Sam Bough