George Arthur Fripp

George Arthur Fripp in the 1890s

The grave of George Arthur Fripp, Highgate Cemetery, London

George Arthur Fripp RWS (13 June 1813 – 17 October 1896) was a British watercolourist. He was a grandson of the artist Nicholas Pocock and brother of the painter Alfred Downing Fripp. His nephew was the artist Henry Charles Innes Fripp.

Life[]

Fripp was born in Bristol, and educated in Bristol, Birmingham and Leamington. He had lessons in oil painting from James Baker Pyne and first exhibited at the in 1832. In 1834 he accompanied the Bristol artist William James Müller on a sketching tour of Europe, which produced works he later exhibited at the Royal Academy 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 an artist-reporter for The Graphic, and Thomas W. Fripp, a watercolourist in Canada.

Fripp died in Hampstead, London, in October 1896.

He is buried in the eastern section of Highgate Cemetery in north London. The grave lies in the north-east section close to George Eliot and just south of George Holyoake but is a flat stone at ground level and very hard to locate in the highly 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)

Further reading[]

• Thompson, H. Stuart. George A. Fripp and Alfred D. Fripp (London, Walker's Galleries, 1900). Illustrated.
• Wilcox, Scott, Newall Christopher. Victorian landscape watercolors (Hudson Hills Pr., 1992) p. 77.
• Hargraves, Matthew. Great British watercolors: from the Paul Mellon collection at the Yale (Yale University Press, 2007) p. 85 ff.

Gallery[]

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  George Arthur Fripp in the 1860s

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  George Arthur Fripp in the 1860s

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  Mont Blanc, from near Cormayeur, Vallé d'Aoste (1848)

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  Tivoli (1837)

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  Castle ruins by a river (1830s)

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to George Arthur Fripp.

• G A Fripp online (ArtCyclopedia)
• G A Fripp biography and paintings (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)