Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Samuel Prout

Born: September 17, 1783
Died: February 10, 1852 (aged 68)
Bio: Samuel Prout was one of the masters of British watercolour architectural painting. Prout secured the position of Painter in Water-Colours in Ordinary to King George IV in 1829 and afterwards to Queen Victoria.
Known for:
- Salving from the wreck (1848)
- Chateau de Martinsbourg, Mayence (1852)
- The Rialto, Venice
- Plympton Grammar School






