Montagu Scott
Montague Scott 1834-1909 Christened Eugene Monatagu Scott he was born in Middlesex England. He ws the 4th and youngest son of William Scott and also an artist. He was also based at Sussex Cottage London and he exhibited at the Royal Acadamy London. However in 1855 age 21 he emigrated to Australia. There he painted, mainly portraits and later race horses. He also worked for The Melbourne Punch and then The Sydney Punch becoming successful as a political cartoonist. He was comissioned to paint The Duke of Edinburgh. |
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Montagu Scott - entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Scott, Eugene Montagu (Monty) (1835–1909)
by Suzanne Edgar
Eugene Montagu (Monty) Scott (1835-1909), cartoonist and illustrator, was born in London, son of William Scott, artist, and his wife Sarah, née Myers. He migrated to Victoria in the 1850s and worked as a photographer. On 20 July 1859 in Melbourne he married Amy Johnson. In 1857-65 he contributed drawings and cartoons to the Illustrated Australian Mail, Illustrated Melbourne Post and Melbourne Punch.
In 1866 Scott moved to Sydney as chief cartoonist for the Sydney Punch, producing unexceptional material for it till 1886. In 1867 he received a princely 250 guineas commission for a portrait of the Duke of Edinburgh. He was established in a photographic salon in George Street and in the 1870s his large wood-engravings and lithographs of rugged outdoor scenes, formal functions and public personalities regularly enlivened the Illustrated Sydney News. Many fine lithographs were issued as supplements including a portrait of (Sir) Henry Parkes. At the 1870 Intercolonial Exhibition in Sydney his 7 ft (2.1 m) by 3 ft 6 ins (1.1 m) oil, 'A Day's Picnic on Clark Island', was criticized by the Sydney Morning Herald for its 'grotesque little figures resembling gaudily bedecked marionettes', but when given to the Mitchell Library in 1930 it was praised for its faithful depiction of the fashions of the period.
Bankrupt in June 1870, Scott was forced to sell his photographic equipment to meet his creditors. In 1871 the Sydney Mail employed him as its first artist. In 1872 he had illustrations in two publications: Our Christmas Budget by H. W. H. Stephen and G. Bunster and Punch Staff Papers; in 1877 Sydney Punch ran a fine series of his chromo-lithographs, 'Our Collection of Worthies'. The December 1878 Sydney Punch included Arthur Clint's caricature of 'Monty' in sartorial attire with 'gad sir! air'. Clint and Scott illustrated 'Ironbark's' (G. H. Gibson) Southerly Busters of that year.
From 1880 the Bulletin carried some cartoons and occasional engravings of local dignitaries by Scott. The Brisbane Boomerang, founded 1887, ran his cartoons until 1891 when he drew the first cartoons for the Queensland Worker, continuing as its chief cartoonist until 1909. In 1889 he had moved to Brisbane and on 5 December married a widow, Mary Ellen Price, née Mehan; he lived there four years. His Queensland Worker cartoons were lively and admirably attuned to its optimistic, combative tone; they were being reproduced elsewhere years later. The Worker saw Scott as 'the personification of kindness' but photography eventually replaced his work. He was paid £1 5s. a cartoon but he lived 'from hand to mouth' during his last years, painting portraits and racehorses where he could, selling work to Sydney sporting papers, the Arrow, Referee, Star and Sunday Times and assisted by friends. He had become 'one of the best of the good old sort' and by August 1908, having received no orders for the previous eighteen months, was again bankrupt. On 15 May 1909, aged 74, he died at Randwick of cystitis and was buried in the Anglican section of Waverley cemetery, survived by his wife and by two daughters and a son of his first marriage.
Citation details
Edgar, Suzanne, 'Scott, Eugene Montagu (Monty) (1835–1909)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/scott-eugene-montagu-monty-4547/text7453, accessed 24 February 2012.
This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, (MUP), 1976
by Suzanne Edgar
Eugene Montagu (Monty) Scott (1835-1909), cartoonist and illustrator, was born in London, son of William Scott, artist, and his wife Sarah, née Myers. He migrated to Victoria in the 1850s and worked as a photographer. On 20 July 1859 in Melbourne he married Amy Johnson. In 1857-65 he contributed drawings and cartoons to the Illustrated Australian Mail, Illustrated Melbourne Post and Melbourne Punch.
In 1866 Scott moved to Sydney as chief cartoonist for the Sydney Punch, producing unexceptional material for it till 1886. In 1867 he received a princely 250 guineas commission for a portrait of the Duke of Edinburgh. He was established in a photographic salon in George Street and in the 1870s his large wood-engravings and lithographs of rugged outdoor scenes, formal functions and public personalities regularly enlivened the Illustrated Sydney News. Many fine lithographs were issued as supplements including a portrait of (Sir) Henry Parkes. At the 1870 Intercolonial Exhibition in Sydney his 7 ft (2.1 m) by 3 ft 6 ins (1.1 m) oil, 'A Day's Picnic on Clark Island', was criticized by the Sydney Morning Herald for its 'grotesque little figures resembling gaudily bedecked marionettes', but when given to the Mitchell Library in 1930 it was praised for its faithful depiction of the fashions of the period.
Bankrupt in June 1870, Scott was forced to sell his photographic equipment to meet his creditors. In 1871 the Sydney Mail employed him as its first artist. In 1872 he had illustrations in two publications: Our Christmas Budget by H. W. H. Stephen and G. Bunster and Punch Staff Papers; in 1877 Sydney Punch ran a fine series of his chromo-lithographs, 'Our Collection of Worthies'. The December 1878 Sydney Punch included Arthur Clint's caricature of 'Monty' in sartorial attire with 'gad sir! air'. Clint and Scott illustrated 'Ironbark's' (G. H. Gibson) Southerly Busters of that year.
From 1880 the Bulletin carried some cartoons and occasional engravings of local dignitaries by Scott. The Brisbane Boomerang, founded 1887, ran his cartoons until 1891 when he drew the first cartoons for the Queensland Worker, continuing as its chief cartoonist until 1909. In 1889 he had moved to Brisbane and on 5 December married a widow, Mary Ellen Price, née Mehan; he lived there four years. His Queensland Worker cartoons were lively and admirably attuned to its optimistic, combative tone; they were being reproduced elsewhere years later. The Worker saw Scott as 'the personification of kindness' but photography eventually replaced his work. He was paid £1 5s. a cartoon but he lived 'from hand to mouth' during his last years, painting portraits and racehorses where he could, selling work to Sydney sporting papers, the Arrow, Referee, Star and Sunday Times and assisted by friends. He had become 'one of the best of the good old sort' and by August 1908, having received no orders for the previous eighteen months, was again bankrupt. On 15 May 1909, aged 74, he died at Randwick of cystitis and was buried in the Anglican section of Waverley cemetery, survived by his wife and by two daughters and a son of his first marriage.
Citation details
Edgar, Suzanne, 'Scott, Eugene Montagu (Monty) (1835–1909)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/scott-eugene-montagu-monty-4547/text7453, accessed 24 February 2012.
This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, (MUP), 1976
This a photograph, by the famous Freeman Bros, of Scott standing in front of a caricature he has drawn of Henry Parkes.
For a year or so, in both Sydney and Melbourne, Monte did a stage show where he drew lightening caricatures and this photograph of Scott was no doubt a promotional image for those shows
For a year or so, in both Sydney and Melbourne, Monte did a stage show where he drew lightening caricatures and this photograph of Scott was no doubt a promotional image for those shows
This is an actual caricature of Scott by the famous Clint