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De Scott Evans
1847-1898
was an American artist who worked in Indiana, Ohio and New York. He was known for portraits, still lifes, landscapes and other genres.
Born in Boston, Indiana to David S. and Nancy A. (Davenport) Evans. His father was a physician. Evans changed his signature to D. Scott Evans and later to De Scott Evans. He also signed paintings with the names David Scott, S. S. David, and Stanley S. David. He attended Miami University's preparatory school in the 1860s, studying with professor Adrian Beaugureau at Miami and later in Cincinnati.
In 1873, he became head of the art department at Mount Union College and after several terms there, he moved to Cleveland to teach and to paint. From Cleveland, he moved to New York. He died along with 500 other passengers and crew, including his daughters when the French steamer La Bourgogne was rammed by a sailing ship in July 1898.
Though he died at sea, there is a marker for him and his daughters in the Oxford Cemetery in Oxford, Ohio.
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Painting ID:: 4016
Arranging Roses
1892
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Painting ID:: 19034
Picking Wildflowers
watercolor and gouache on paper
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Painting ID:: 45397
Erdnusse
mk181
um 1890
Ol auf Leinwand
36.1x25.3cm
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Painting ID:: 72136
Irish Question
American painter
Date of birth/death 1847(1847) 4 July 1898
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Painting ID:: 72142
Connoisseur
American painter
Date of birth/death 1847(1847) 4 July 1898
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De Scott Evans
1847-1898
was an American artist who worked in Indiana, Ohio and New York. He was known for portraits, still lifes, landscapes and other genres.
Born in Boston, Indiana to David S. and Nancy A. (Davenport) Evans. His father was a physician. Evans changed his signature to D. Scott Evans and later to De Scott Evans. He also signed paintings with the names David Scott, S. S. David, and Stanley S. David. He attended Miami University's preparatory school in the 1860s, studying with professor Adrian Beaugureau at Miami and later in Cincinnati.
In 1873, he became head of the art department at Mount Union College and after several terms there, he moved to Cleveland to teach and to paint. From Cleveland, he moved to New York. He died along with 500 other passengers and crew, including his daughters when the French steamer La Bourgogne was rammed by a sailing ship in July 1898.
Though he died at sea, there is a marker for him and his daughters in the Oxford Cemetery in Oxford, Ohio.
. Related Artists to De Scott Evans: | Elizabeth Lyman Boott Duveneck | Thomas Wilmer Dewing | Jan ten Compe | Thomas Girtin | Edmund Blair Leighton |
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