James George Philp (1816– 11 April 1885), of

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, was a

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and coastal painter. Most of his subjects were found in

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and

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. He exhibited from 1846 to 1885 including the 1880 Winter Exhibition at the Institute of Painters in Water Colours. Philp was described by the critic of

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as ″...''the veteran, and most distinguished, coast painter of which Cornwall can boast'', ,,,″ and impressed by ''A Cornish Bulwark'' describing it as a ″''striking work''″ ″''and a passage of great beauty''″. Eighteen months before his death he suffered ″paralysis″, and just before his death in Falmouth he had a seizure. He left a widow and son.

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1816 births 1885 deaths 19th-century British painters British male painters Members of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours People from Falmouth, Cornwall 19th-century British male artists {{UK-painter-19thC-stub