GEORGE ARTHUR FRIPP R.W.S.
(1813 1896)
Farm Buildings by the
13 3/8 x 19 ½ (340 x
494mm). Signed & dated 1851 IMAGE
George Arthur Fripp was the grandson of the Marine Artist
Nicholas Pocock. He was a landscape
painter of the Bristol School. He had lessons in oil painting from James Baker
Pyne and his master in watercolour was Samuel Jackson, the father of the
Bristol School of painting. In 1834 he travelled in Italy for 7 months with
William J. Muller. He came to London in
1838 and was elected Associate of the Society of Painters in Watercolours in
1841 and a full Member in 1845. The
first of a long series of pictures he painted of the Thames was exhibited in
1842. In 1848 he exhibited a large
painting at the Royal Academy which was said to have received a tribute of
praise from Turner, which was
purchased for the Liverpool Corporation.
In 1860, by command of Queen Victoria, he visited Balmoral to make
sketches of the Royal residence and surrounding area for the Royal
Collection. In the early 1870s he was
elected Member of the Belgian Society of Painters in Watercolours. His work, which includes views of the Thames,
Scotland, South Wales, Dorset, Yorkshire, Sark, Switzerland and Northern Italy
was exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society, the Royal Academy, Suffolk
Street Galleries and the British Institute. Examples of his work can be found
in the collections of the British Museum; Victoria and Albert Museum; Aberdeen
Art Gallery; the Ashmolean; Blackburn Art Gallery; Coventry Art Gallery; Leeds
City Art Gallery; City Art Gallery, Manchester; National Gallery of Scotland,
Newport Art Gallery, Richmond Library, Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend and the
Ulster Museum.
