Landscape with a Castle
Artist: Paul Sandby (British, 1725-1809)
Date: about 1776-1786
Dimensions:
H: 11 3/4 in. (29.9 cm); W: 17 3/4 in. (45.1 cm)
Medium: Graphite, watercolor, and pen and brown ink (likely iron gall) on laid paper
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Object number: 1950.233
Label Text:A bucolic image of the English countryside, this drawing gives no hint of the great changes occurring in England at this time: effects on the countryside of the burgeoning Industrial Revolution included loss of wooded lands, greater agriculture production, and accelerated movement of the population towards the cities.
Paul Sandby is considered “the father of English watercolor.” He became Chief Drawing Master at the Royal Military Academy in Woolrich and was even drawing instructor to the daughters of King George III (ruled 1760–1820). Sandby was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1768. As a member of the Academy he helped to raise the status of landscape artists and to popularize and professionalize painting in watercolor. According to the great English artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), there was no better artist than Sandby for “real views from Nature in this Country.” Sandby had a long career, working until he was in his 80s.
Paul Sandby is considered “the father of English watercolor.” He became Chief Drawing Master at the Royal Military Academy in Woolrich and was even drawing instructor to the daughters of King George III (ruled 1760–1820). Sandby was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1768. As a member of the Academy he helped to raise the status of landscape artists and to popularize and professionalize painting in watercolor. According to the great English artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), there was no better artist than Sandby for “real views from Nature in this Country.” Sandby had a long career, working until he was in his 80s.
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