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GEORGE ARTHUR FRIPP R.W.S. (1813 – 1896)
“Mapledurham Mill”
Watercolour. Signed.
12 ½” x 19 ½”(317mm x 495mm)
Overall framed size 21 ¼” x 28 ½” (540mm x 725mm) IMAGE 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
