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William Bell Scott (Scottish, 18111890) Left panel (Shakespeare) of a four-leaf screen with portraits of Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, and Spenser, 19th century Scottish painter and poet William Bell Scott was closely associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and, like the Pre-Raphaelites, often painted historical subjects in high color and intense detail. His masterly four-leaf screen features medallion portraits of literary greats William Shakespeare (15641616), John Milton (16081674), Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 13401400), and Edmund Spenser (c. 15521599). - INDIVIDUAL ITEM RRP £1.99