Samuel Scott
Painter of views of Twickenham riverside
c1702-1772
Buys the Tanyard
In 1755 Scott joined with Joseph Hickey in buying the Tanyard, attached to which was a cottage which may have been the one rented by Mrs Scott. They divided the land and each built a house on it.
Cross Deep Hall
Scott did not occupy his new house, later known as Cross Deep Hall: he leased it, selling the property in 1765 to Frederick Atherton Hindley lately steward to the Earl of Radnor, and now living in Radnor House.
At the Manor House
In about 1758 Scott himself took up residence in a part of the Manor House, opposite St Mary's Church in Twickenham, staying here for several years.
While here he made a watercolour view of the church which also shows the building of which the Twickenham Museum is a part: the earliest known view. This picture can be dated from the scaffolding surrounding the church for repairs "to the Great Cornish" known to have been undertaken in 1762.
Scott finally left Twickenham in 1765, going to Ludlow where his daughter lived, before settling in Bath, where he died in 1772.
Further reading:
Anthony Beckles Willson, Mr Pope & Others in Cross Deep, 1996