John Skinner Prout: Figure Seated by an Inn

Figure seated outside a building, we believe an Inn, watercolour. Attributed to John Skinner Prout. John Skinner Prout (19 December 1805 – 29 August 1876) was a British painter, writer, lithographer and art teacher who worked in Australia in the 1840s. Skinner Prout was born on 19 December 1805 in Plymouth, Devon, England. He is…

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Figure seated outside a building, we believe an Inn, watercolour. Attributed to John Skinner Prout.

John Skinner Prout (19 December 1805 – 29 August 1876) was a British painter, writer, lithographer and art teacher who worked in Australia in the 1840s.

Skinner Prout was born on 19 December 1805 in Plymouth, Devon, England. He is the eldest child of John Prout and Maria Skinner. His father was the elder brother of water-colourist Samuel Prout.

Skinner Prout married Maria Heathilla, who was a musician and painter, on 19 June 1828. They had eleven children.

On 3 December 1838, in London, Prout was elected a member of the New Society of Painters in water colours.

Hoping to improve his fortunes Prout emigrated to Australia with wife and eight children, arriving in Sydney 14 December 1840.

Prout returned to England in June 1848, living in Bristol and London. Upon his return, at the Western Literary and Scientific Institution, Leicester Square, he exhibited his work on life in the Australian colonies, and lectured on convicts, bush-rangers and Aboriginals. In the 1850’s he produced illustrated handbooks detailing his travels in Australia.

Prout died at Kentish Town, London, on 29 August 1876 and was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.