William Sawrey Gilpin. William Sawrey Gilpin was an English artist and drawing master, and in later life a landscape designer.
Gilpin was born at Scaleby Castle, Cumbria on 4 October 1762, the son of the animal painter Sawrey Gilpin. He attended the school of his uncle, William Gilpin, at Cheam in Surrey.
He married Elizabeth Paddock; they had two 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.
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.
He was patronised by Sir George Beaumont, through whom he met the picturesque theorist Uvedale Price. In 1806, Gilpin took a post as drawing master at the Royal Military College, Great Marlow, teaching cadets to make accurate records of the landscape and the lie of enemy positions. This apparently secure employment came to a sudden end in 1820, when he was made redundant in a round of post-Napoleonic war cutbacks, at the age of nearly sixty. To support his family, Gilpin turned to a career as a landscape gardener, for which he had little qualification or experience beyo
Gilpin was born at Scaleby Castle, Cumbria on 4 October 1762, the son of the animal painter Sawrey Gilpin. He attended the school of his uncle, William Gilpin, at Cheam in Surrey.
He married Elizabeth Paddock; they had two 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.
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.
He was patronised by Sir George Beaumont, through whom he met the picturesque theorist Uvedale Price. In 1806, Gilpin took a post as drawing master at the Royal Military College, Great Marlow, teaching cadets to make accurate records of the landscape and the lie of enemy positions. This apparently secure employment came to a sudden end in 1820, when he was made redundant in a round of post-Napoleonic war cutbacks, at the age of nearly sixty. To support his family, Gilpin turned to a career as a landscape gardener, for which he had little qualification or experience beyo
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