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Sawrey Gilpin Art

British, 1733-1807

Sawrey Gilpin was a highly regarded English animal painter, illustrator and engraver, specializing in horse and dog painting. He was made a Royal Academician. Gilpin was born in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. Gilpin's works are widely collected and are held by The Courtauld Institute of Art, The National Portrait Gallery London, Tate Britain, The Royal Academy of Arts and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

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Artist: Sawrey Gilpin
Study of a hound in a landscape
By Sawrey Gilpin
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Sawrey Gilpin (1733-1807) Study of a hound in a landscape Oil on canvas Canvas Size - 14 x 17 in Framed Size - 17 x 20 in Provenance: Victor Brockbank Fine Art, London; Private Collection, London. Sawrey Gilpin was a member of an old Cumberland family who chose a career in sporting painting, at which he was encouraged as a young man by the great Duke of Cumberland who had suppressed the Jacobite rising of 1745. Gilpin, though centred on London, always retained his Northern links, and had as patron many northern sportsman, like the sporting fanatic Colonel Thornton of Thornville Royal for whom he painted numerous pictures. Gilpin has suffered from being under the shadow of his incomparable contemporary George Stubbs, but he emerges as a leading horse and animal painter of a competence which is always reliable and occasionally inspired. He is an important link between the early English School of Wootton, Tillemans and the like, and the later painters exemplified by Ferneley and Herring. He was the president of the Society of Artists in 1773, and was elected RA in 1797. A clubbable man, he was popular with his fellow Royal Academicians. He frequently collaborated with them, adding portraits of favourite animals to numerous pictures by Barret, Walton, Romney, Zoffany, Reinagle and even the young Turner. He was the teacher of Thomas Gooch...
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18th Century Old Masters Sawrey Gilpin Art

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Oil

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