Sawrey gilpin biography

Sawrey Gilpin was.
Sawrey Gilpin RA (30 October 1733 – 8 March 1807) was an English animal painter, illustrator, and etcher who specialised in paintings of horses and dogs.
William Sawrey Gilpin (4 October 1762 – 4 April 1843) was an English artist and drawing master, and in later life a landscape designer.

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William Sawrey Gilpin

English painter

William Sawrey Gilpin (4 October 1762 – 4 April 1843) was an English artist and drawing master, and in later life a landscape designer.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Gilpin was born at Scaleby Castle, Cumbria^[3] on 4 October 1762, the son of the animal painter Sawrey Gilpin. He attended the school of his uncle, William Gilpin (originator of the Picturesque), at Cheam in Surrey. He married Elizabeth Paddock; they had two (or possibly three) sons, one of whom seems to have remained dependent on his father. He died at Sedbury Hall, North Yorkshire, the house of his cousin the Reverend John Gilpin, and is buried nearby in the churchyard at Gilling West.

Artist

In the 1780s, Gilpin taught himself the relatively new aquatint process of printmaking, to produce plates to illustrate his uncle's books on picturesque scenery. Gilpin specialised in watercolours; and in 1804 was elected first President of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours.^[4] He was patronised by Sir George Beaumont, through who

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(b Scaleby, nr. Carlisle, 30 Oct. 1733; d Brompton, Middlesex [now in London], 8 Mar. 1807). English animal painter. He began his career as an apprentice to Samuel Scott, the marine painter, but turned to the painting of horses, making a name with ‘portraits’ of celebrated racers. In occasional large canvases he contrived his own blend of horse and history painting (The Election of Darius, c.1772, York AG). His son, William Sawrey Gilpin (1761/2–1843), began his career as a watercolourist but turned to landscape gardening, a field in which he had great success, in spite of his lack of professional training. The Revd William Gilpin (1724–1804), brother of Sawrey, was a writer, draughtsman, and printmaker, one of the most important advocates of the Picturesque.

His travel books helped to promote a boom in domestic tourism.

Text source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press)

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Sawrey Gilpin

English painter

Sawrey GilpinRA (30 October 1733 – 8 March 1807) was an English animal painter, illustrator, and etcher who specialised in paintings of horses and dogs. He was made a Royal Academician.^[1]

Life and work

Gilpin was born in Carlisle in Cumbria, Kingdom of Great Britain. He was the seventh child of Captain John Bernard Gilpin, a soldier and amateur artist, and Matilda Langstaffe. He was the younger brother of the Rev. William Gilpin, a clergyman and schoolmaster who wrote of several influential works on picturesque scenery.^[1]

As a child Gilpin learnt to draw from his father, who ran a drawing school in Carlisle. Having shown an early predilection for art, he was sent to London at the age of fourteen to study under the marine painter Samuel Scott in Covent Garden. Gilpin, however, preferred sketching the passing market carts and horses, and it soon became evident that animals, especially horses, were his speciality. Gilpin left Scott in 1758, and devoted himself to animal painting from then on. Some of his s