William SCOTT gouache on paper signed painting, 14 x 11.3/8 in. Signed on bottom right. Excellent condition. Framed. Private collection. COA. William Scott was a British artist, known for still-life and abstract painting. He is the most internationally celebrated of 20th-century Ulster painters. William Scott was born in Britain on 15 February 1913, in Greenock, Scotland. to Scots-Irish parents, in 1924 his family moved with his mother, Agnes to Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, to join his father in his native town. Scott married in 1937, and for the next two years lived abroad, mostly in Italy and in France,[1] where he founded an art school in Pont-Aven, Brittany. In 1946 Scott returned to Pont-Aven to recover his pre-war work, but failed to find it. From 1946 until 1956 Scott was senior lecturer in painting at the Bath Academy of Art. In the summer of 1953 he visited the USA where he met Jackson Pollock, Elaine de Kooning, Franz Kline and Mark Rothko. Although his work had become predominantly abstract in 1952, after his meeting with the American Abstract Expressionists.,[1] he reverted to his roots in still life and European painting. He died at his home near Bath, Somerset in 1989.