Sawrey Gilpin
Sawrey Gilpin RA (30 October 1733 – 8 March 1807) was an English animal painter, illustrator, and etcher who specialised in paintings of horses and dogs.Having shown an early predilection for art, he was sent to London at the age of fourteen to study under the marine painter Samuel Scott in Covent Garden.Some of his sketches were shown to the Duke of Cumberland, who was much impressed by them, and employed Gilpin to draw from his stud at Newmarket and at Windsor, where he was ranger of the Great Park.In 1768, and 1770-1, he exhibited a series of pictures illustrating "Gulliver's visit to the Houyhnhnms", one of which was engraved in mezzotint by Valentine Green; in 1770 a drawing of "Darius gaining the Persian Empire by the neighing of his horse"; in 1771 "The Duke of Cumberland visiting his stud (with a view of Windsor Castle from the Great Park, by William Marlow)".[3] There are works by Gilpin in the collections of the Courtauld Institute of Art,[4] Tate Britain,[5] and the Royal Academy,[6] in London and the Fitzwilliam Museum,[7] Cambridge.
William DaniellGeorge DanceGulliverHouyhnhnmsCarlisleCumbriaKingdom of Great BritainWilliam GilpinLondonSamuel ScottCovent GardenDuke of CumberlandNewmarketWindsorGreat ParkEnglish Springer SpanielKnightsbridgeGeorge Barret, Sr.John ZoffanyPhilip ReinagleIncorporated Society of ArtistsmezzotintValentine GreenWilliam MarlowRoyal AcademyWilliam Sawrey Gilpinlandscape gardenerBedfordshireSamuel WhitbreadBromptonJohn Warwick SmithGeorge GarrardJohn ScottNational Portrait GalleryCourtauld Institute of ArtTate BritainFitzwilliam MuseumCambridgeStephen, LeslieDictionary of National BiographyArt UK