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Name
Drummond, Samuel ARA
Birth date
1770
Death date
1844
Biography
Samuel Drummond was born in London. His father had fought for the Pretender in the ‘45 rebellion. At the age of fourteen he ran away to sea and spent some six or seven years in the Service. He then took up painting and, self-taught, he provided illustrations for the “European Magazine”. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1791 and first exhibited there in the same year, showing over 300 works at the Royal Academy over the following 43 years. Drummond was elected ARA in 1808. He received a commission from the Directors of the British Institution for a large canvas of ‘Admiral Duncan receiving the Sword of the Dutch Admiral De Winter’; that picture was presented to the Greenwich Hospital. Drummond’s later work became somewhat slapdash.