Sam Bough was an English-born landscape

Landscape art

Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...

 painter

Painting

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 who spent much of his career working in Scotland.

Born in Carlisle, Cumberland

Cumberland

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, England he was self-taught and worked as a theatre scenery painter in Manchester

Manchester

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 and Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

. Encouraged by Daniel Macnee

Daniel Macnee

Sir Daniel Macnee FRSE RSA , was a Scottish portrait painter who served as President of the Royal Scottish Academy....

 to take up landscape painting he moved to Hamilton

Hamilton, South Lanarkshire

Hamilton is a town in South Lanarkshire, in the west-central Lowlands of Scotland. It serves as the main administrative centre of the South Lanarkshire council area. It is the fifth-biggest town in Scotland after Paisley, East Kilbride, Livingston and Cumbernauld...

 from 1852-4 and worked there with Alexander Fraser

Alexander Fraser

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. In Cadzow Forest (1857, Bourne Fine Art), influenced by McCulloch

Horatio McCulloch

Horatio McCulloch , sometimes written M'Culloch, was a Scottish landscape painter.-Life:...

, is a 'magnificent' portrait of two ancient trees.

He later settled in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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 and followed Turner

J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting...

 in becoming a skillful painter of sea ports. Examples include St. Andrews (Noble Grossart), and The Dreadnought from Greenwich Stairs: Sun Sinking into Vapour (1861, Private Collection).

He later fell out with McCulloch, (their dogs apparently taking sides in the dispute). He was admired by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde....

 and painted a view of his house at Swanston

Swanston, Edinburgh

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, and the construction of Dubh Artach

Dubh Artach

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 lighthouse. The engineering work for the latter was undertaken by the brothers Thomas

Thomas Stevenson

Thomas Stevenson PRSE MInstCE FRSSA FSAScot was a pioneering Scottish lighthouse designer and meteorologist, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, as well as the Stevenson screen used in meteorology...

 and David

David Stevenson (engineer)

David Stevenson FRSE FRSSA was a Scottish lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, and helped found a great dynasty of lighthouse engineering.-Background:...

Stevenson, Robert Louis' father and uncle respectively. R. L. Stevenson penned a glowing obituary of him.