Robert Scott Tait
1815–97
Scottish portrait painter. Resident at 14 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square. Exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1845–75. Best known for his work ‘Thomas and Jane Carlyle in the drawing room of their house in Cheyne Row’.
Sources
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 September 2018)
Post Office London directory 1861
Scotland old parish registers births 647/ 30 242 Hamilton (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 12 September 2018)
C. Wood 1978.
Bibliography
Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.
Wood, Christopher. 1978. The dictionary of Victorian painters. 2d ed. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club.
