Montagu Scott

Also known as J. Montague Scott
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Montagu Scott arrived in Melbourne in the late 1850s and ran a photographic studio before illustrating the Melbourne Punch. He later moved to Sydney where he became notorious for charging the Duke of Edinburgh 250 guineas of a portrait.
Tags: Sydney Punch, Clark Island

J.Montagu Scott arrived in Melbourne in the late 1850s where he ran a photographic studio , which also had a branch in Sydney. From 1861 to 1865 he was a cartoonist for the Melbourne Punch, then from 1865 to 1885 the chief cartoonist for Sydney Punch. He was well remembered for charging the visiting Duke of Edinburgh 250 guineas for a portrait painted in about 1868. In 1870 his large painting, Picnic at Clark Island, was called “grotesque” by the Sydney Morning Herald in a review of the Intercolonial Exhibition. In 1877 he began a series of chromolithographs “Our collection of Worthies”. He moved to Brisbane 1887 as a cartoonist for the Boomerang, then from 1891 for the Worker.

Writers:

Joanna Mendelssohn
Date written:
2012
Last updated:
2012