Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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






