Samuel Prout's father was a respected marine outfitter in the English port city of Plymouth and Samuel Jr. was the family's fourteenth child. The young Prout went to school in Plymouth and his headmaster Dr. John Bidlake, himself an artist, recognized the boy's artistic talent and encouraged him to paint. Together with another young talent, the later very famous painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, the young Prout spent much time in nature and painted everything that caught his eye, gnarled old trees, picturesque houses and bridges, historic watermills and village scenes of everyday life in the Devonian hills. He had a good eye and very great talent. At the age of 20 the artist went to London, where he studied painting for some time. To earn a living, he worked in a printing house, published textbooks on painting and at the same time taught other students. One of them was John Ruskin, who would later become a very famous painter, gallerist, art critic and patron of the arts. In 1810 Samuel Prout married Elizabeth Gillespie. The couple had four children, the son Samuel junior and the daughters Elizabeth, Rebecca and Isabella.
When Prout was 35 years old, he visited various cities and regions in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands and was immediately in love with the historic cityscapes, the picturesque old houses with their beautiful gables and facades, the narrow streets and the colourful market squares. But he was also fascinated by the remains of ancient buildings. This is exactly what he wanted to paint and often went straight to work to sketch what it was that inspired him so much. Thus began his second artistic creative phase. Prout became internationally known and famous. His watercolours and drawings with titles such as "Marketplace of Uttrecht", "Market Day", "A City Gate in Nuremberg", "The Portal of the Ulm Cathedral" ", "Ulrepforte in Cologne", "Old Town Bridge Tower in Prague" and "The Palazzo Contarini in Venice" caused storms of enthusiasm. John Ruskin, the famous art critic who once studied with Prout, once put it this way: "I can sometimes get tired of a gymnast, but never of Prout". The English King George IV also held Samuel Prout in high esteem and appointed him Royal Watercolourist in 1829. At the age of 69, Samuel Prout died of a stroke at his home in London.
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.jpg "A Series of Ancient Buildings and Rural Cottages in the North of England: Helmsley by Samuel Prout")
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.jpg "Bamberg, from Facsimiles of Sketches made in Flanders and Germany by Samuel Prout")
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