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.