John White Allen Scott or
John W.A. Scott was born in Roxbury,
Boston,
Massachusetts, in 1815. Scott began as an apprentice at
Pendleton's Lithography in 1830 at the same time as fellow Roxbury native
Nathaniel Currier of
Currier and Ives. In 1844 Scott started a lithography firm in partnership with
Fitz Hugh Lane ("Lane & Scott's Lithography"), which lasted until 1847. The firm successfully produced lithographs dominated by ships, landscapes and architectural forms. Scott continued to produce "exceptional" lithographs into the 1850s and would remain friends with Lane. Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's
Tremont Temple. Scott's work sold well during his time; for instance, in 1855 he "sold more than 50 landscapes at auction." Among his favorite subjects was Southern New Hampshire's Mount Monadnock. He belonged to the
New England Art Union and the
Boston Art Club (1863-1907), of which he was the oldest member at the time of his death. Scott also frequently exhibited at the
Boston Athenæum. Scott's paintings are now held in the collections of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the
Currier Museum of Art, the
Farnsworth Art Museum, the
New Hampshire Historical Society, and
The Butler Institute of American Art, among other museums and galleries. ==References==