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

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. He was a grandson of the artist

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and brother of the painter Alfred Downing Fripp. His nephew was the artist

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Fripp was born in

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, and educated in Bristol,

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and Leamington. He had lessons in

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from

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

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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 an artist-reporter for ''

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'', and Thomas W. Fripp, a watercolourist in Canada. Fripp died in

Hampstead Hampstead () is an area in London, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, and extends from Watling Street, the A5 road (Roman Watling Street) to Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland. The area forms the northwest part of the Lon ...

, London, in October 1896. 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 and the grave of

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, just south of

George Holyoake George Jacob Holyoake (13 April 1817 – 22 January 1906) was an English secularist, co-operator and newspaper editor. He coined the terms secularism in 1851 and " jingoism" in 1878. He edited a secularist paper, the ''Reasoner'', from 1846 to J ...

. 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)

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George Arthur Fripp.jpg, George Arthur Fripp in the 1860s George Arthur Fripp2.jpg, George Arthur Fripp in the 1860s Mont Blanc, from near Cormayeur, Vallé d'Aoste by George Arthur Fripp.jpg, ''Mont Blanc, from near Cormayeur, Vallé d'Aoste'' (1848) Tivoli by George Arthur Fripp.jpg, ''Tivoli'' (1837) Castle ruins by a river by George Arthur Fripp.jpg, ''Castle ruins by a river'' (1830s)

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(ArtCyclopedia)

(The Fripp & Pocock families of Bristol, England)
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)
George Arthur Fripp
(Tate Collection)
Penrhyn Castle, view from the Queen's window
(1860 watercolour –

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( 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 Artists from Bristol 19th-century English male artists

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