David Scott, a Scottish artist, born in Edinburgh, Oct. 10 or 12, 1806, died there, March 5, 1849. He was an engraver and painter, and engraved after Stothard a series of illustrations for Thomson's "Scottish Melodies." He painted in 1828 "The Hopes of Early Genius dispelled by Death," and in 1830 sent to the British institution his "Lot and his Daughters fleeing from Sodom," which was rejected. In 1831 he exhibited the "Monograms of Man," a series of outline etchings, and the first of 25 illustrations of Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner." In 1832 he painted "Sar-pedon carried by Sleep and Death," and "Discord, or the Household Gods destroyed;" and subsequently "Ariel and Caliban," "The Al-chymist," "Silenus praising Wine," and his masterpiece, "Vasco da Gama encountering the Spirit of the Cape." He also illustrated the "Pilgrim's Progress," and contributed to "Blackwood's Magazine" a series of essays on the "Characteristics of the Great Masters" (1840). His journal in Italy, with poems, notes on art, and other papers, have been published with a memoir by his brother, W. B. Scott (8vo, London, 1850).