George Arthur Fripp (13 June 1813 – 17 October 1896) was a British

watercolourist Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the S ...

Life

Fripp was born on 13 June 1813, in

Bristol Bristol () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. Built around the River Avon, Bristol, River Avon, it is bordered by t ...

, and educated in Bristol,

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and Leamington. He was a grandson of

Nicholas Pocock Nicholas Pocock (2 March 1740 – 9 March 1821) was an English artist known for his many detailed paintings of naval battles during the age of sail. Birth and early career at sea Pocock was born in Bristol in 1740, the son of a seaman.Chatte ...

, a brother of Alfred Downing Fripp and an uncle of

Henry Charles Innes Fripp Henry Charles Innes Fripp (1867-1963) was an English painter, genre artist and illustrator, stained glass maker, designer, and teacher. Many of his illustrations appear under the name Innes Fripp. He was born in 1867 to a family of well known p ...

. He had lessons in

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from

James Baker Pyne James Baker Pyne (5 December 1800 – 29 July 1870) was an English landscape painter who became a successful follower of Turner, after having been in his earlier years a member of the Bristol School of artists and a follower of Francis Dan ...

and first exhibited at the Bristol Society of Artists in 1832. In 1834 he accompanied the Bristol artist

William James Müller William James Müller (28 June 18128 September 1845), also spelt Muller, was a British landscape and figure painter, the best-known artist of the Bristol School. Life Müller was born at Bristol, the son of J. S. Müller, a Prussian from Danz ...

on a sketching tour of Europe, which produced works he later exhibited at the

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from 1838. In 1841, he exhibited at the Old Watercolour Society, becoming an associate that year, a full member in 1845, and secretary from 1848 to 1854. He became well known for his watercolours, mostly scenic British views. He married Mary Percival in 1846. Two of their twelve children also became artists:

Charles Edwin Fripp Charles Edwin Fripp (4 September 1854 – 1906) was an English painter and illustrator, and special war artist. Charles Edwin Fripp was born in London, one of the twelve children of George Arthur Fripp (1822–1895), a landscape artist, and M ...

an artist-reporter for ''

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'', and Thomas Fripp, a watercolourist in Canada. Another son,

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, became an architect Fripp died in

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, on 17 October 1896, aged 83. He is buried in the eastern section of

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in north

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. The grave lies in the north-east section close to the vault of his friend

Edwin Wilkins Field Edwin Wilkins Field (12 October 1804 – 30 July 1871) was a British lawyer and painter who committed much of his life to law reform. Early life Edwin, a descendant of Oliver Cromwell through his grandmother, was the eldest of thirteen children ...

and the grave of

George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrot ...

, just south of George Holyoake. It is a flat stone slab at ground level and hard to locate in the overgrown areas off the main paths.

References

*Francis Greenacre.
Fripp, George Arthur (1813–1896)
, (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 – accessed 13 June 2007)

Gallery

File:George Arthur Fripp.jpg, George Arthur Fripp in the 1860s File:George Arthur Fripp2.jpg, George Arthur Fripp in the 1860s File:Mont Blanc, from near Cormayeur, Vallé d'Aoste by George Arthur Fripp.jpg, ''Mont Blanc, from near Cormayeur, Vallé d'Aoste'' (1848) File:Tivoli by George Arthur Fripp.jpg, ''Tivoli'' (1837) File:Castle ruins by a river by George Arthur Fripp.jpg, ''Castle ruins by a river'' (1830s) File:Kilchurn Castle - Loch Awe - George Arthur Fripp - ABDAG002569.jpg, ''Kilchurn Castle - Loch Awe'', Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums Collection

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(ArtCyclopedia)

(The Fripp & Pocock families of Bristol, England)
George Arthur Fripp
(Government Art Collection)
George Arthur Fripp
(Tate Collection)
Penrhyn Castle, view from the Queen's window
(1860 watercolour – Royal Collection)
G A Fripp photographs
(National Portrait Gallery (London), National Portrait Gallery, London) {{DEFAULTSORT:Fripp, George Arthur 19th-century English painters English male painters English watercolourists 1813 births 1896 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery Painters from Bristol 19th-century English male artists

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