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    Paul Sandby: Drawings Colour Plates
    Paul Sandby: Drawings Colour Plates
    Paul Sandby: Drawings Colour Plates
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    Paul Sandby: Drawings Colour Plates

    By Maria Peitcheva

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    Paul Sandby (1731 – 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolors, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768.His skills were applauded by fellow artists such as Thomas Gainsborough: if one wanted "real Views from Nature in this Country", declared Gainsborough in 1764, there was no better artist than Sandby, who frequently "employ'd his pencil that way."
    He also etched a large number of plates after his own drawings, a hundred of which were published in a volume in 1765. In 1760 he issued twelve etchings of The Cries of London.
    Sandby made extensive journeys around Britain and Ireland, sketching scenery and ancient monuments. He made his first recorded visit to Wales in 1770, later (1773) touring south Wales with Sir Joseph Banks, resulting in the 1775 publication of XII Views in South Wales and a further 12 views the following year, part of a 48-plate series of aquatint engravings depicting Welsh scenery commissioned by Banks.
    Sandby was described in his obituaries as "the father of modern landscape painting in watercolors"
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaria Peitcheva
    Release dateDec 5, 2015
    ISBN9788892526303
    Paul Sandby: Drawings Colour Plates

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      Colour Plates

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      Foreword

      Paul Sandby (1731 – 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolors, who, along with his older brother Thomas, became one of the founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768.

      Sandby was born in Nottingham, and baptised there in 1731. In 1745 he moved to London where he followed his brother Thomas in obtaining an appointment in the military drawing department at the Tower of London. Following the suppression of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, Sandby was employed to assist in the military survey of the new road to Fort George, and of the northern and western parts of the Highlands, under the direction of Colonel David Watson. He was later appointed draughtsman to the survey.

      While undertaking this commission, which included preparing designs for new bridges and fortifications, he began producing watercolor landscapes documenting the changes in Scotland since the rebellion, and making sketches of Scottish events such as the hanging in Edinburgh of soldier-turned-forger John Young in 1751.

      He left his post with

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