On the Rhine

Samuel Prout attended Plymouth Grammar School where the headmaster encouraged his artistic ability. His first position was as copyist for the antiquarian John Britton (1771-1857) with whom he travelled to Cornwall, making sketches for Britton’s Beauties of England and Wales published in 1810-15. Prout visited Europe in 1818. He went on to secure the position of Painter in Water-Colours in Ordinary to King George IV in 1829 and afterwards to Queen Victoria.