THE LAKE AND FALLS OF OGWEN, SNOWDONIA

Details

GEORGE ARTHUR FRIPP, R.W.S. (1813-1896)
THE LAKE AND FALLS OF OGWEN, SNOWDONIA
signed and dated 'George Ar. Fripp. 1861' (lower centre)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour, and with scratching out
23½ x 33½ in. (59.7 x 85.1 cm.), without frame

Exhibited

London, The Royal Watercolour Society, Summer Exhibition, 1861, no. 119.

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Lot Essay

Grandson of Nicholas Pocock, one of Britain's finest maritime artists, George Arthur Fripp was taught to paint in watercolour by James Baker Pyne and Samuel Jackson in Bristol. In 1834 Fripp visited Italy with William James Muller (see Lot 158), and in 1837 he began to exhibit with the Old Society of Painters in Watercolours (O.W.S.). He was elected to the O.W.S. in 1845. A highlight of Fripp's career was in 1864 when he stayed at Balmoral and drew local views for Queen Victoria.

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