(1891); _I.L.N. lxix_ 218, 253, 255 (1876) _portrait_.
PROUT, SAMUEL. _b._ Plymouth 17 Sept. 1783; educ. Plymouth
gram. school; a water-colour painter in London from 1802;
contributed 23 drawings to John Britton’s Beauties of England
and Wales 1803–13; sold his water-colour drawings to Mr. Palser,
Westminster bridge road 1804; member of Associated artists in
water-colours 1810, exhibited 30 works in their gallery 1810–12;
etched designs for Rudiments of landscape with progressive
studies 1813 anon., and other educational books published by
R. Ackerman of 101 Strand, who also published many detached
etchings by Prout; member of the Oil and water colour society
1819; went abroad in 1820 and succeeding years and made drawings
of churches, streets, etc.; painter in water-colours in ordinary
to the queen 1829; exhibited 28 pictures at R.A. and 8 at B.I.
1803–27; in a loan collection at the Fine arts society gallery
148 New Bond st. 119 of his drawings were exhibited 1879–80;
published S. Prout’s New drawing book 1819; Facsimiles of S.
Prout’s Views in the North of England 1821; Sketches made
in France and Germany 1833; Interiors and exteriors 1834;
Hints on light and shade, composition, &c. 1838, republished
1848; Sketches in France, Switzerland and Italy 1839; Prout’s
Microcosm 1841; Sketches at home and abroad 1844; the sketches
he left were disposed of in a 4 days’ sale at Sotheby and
Wilkinson’s, producing £1788 11s. 6d., May 19–22, 1852. _d._ 5
De Crespigny terrace, Denmark hill, Camberwell 10 Feb. 1852.
_bur._ Norwood cemet., monument St. Andrew’s church, Plymouth.
_J. Ruskin’s Notes on S. Prout and W. Hunt_ (1879); _J. L.
Roget’s Old water-colour society i_ 340, _ii_ 50, 459 (1891);
_G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 106–17; _Redgrave’s
Century of painters ii_ 487–93 (1866); _Art Journal March 1849
pp._ 76–7 _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvii_ 419–20 (1852).
PROUT, THOMAS. _b._ 1785; patent medicine vendor at 229 Strand
1816 to death; a member of the Ballot Society to death; a most
influential elector of city of Westminster 1832 to death. _d._
East Hill, Wandsworth, Surrey 25 July 1859, memorial tablet
erected in St. Clement Danes church by sir de Lacy Evans, G.C.B.
about 1867. _Diprose’s St. Clements i_ 63, 146 (1868).
PROVAN, JOSEPH. _b._ Stonehaven 1799; entered Aberdeen univ.
1811, M.A. 1815; had a literary engagement on the Continent;
parliamentary reporter on Morning chronicle, London; edited the
Macclesfield Courier 1835 to death. _d._ Macclesfield 11 Dec.