Paul Sandby

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Paul Sandby was a landscape painter and printmaker who worked principally in watercolour. He became one of the great pioneers of natural English landscape painting but started out as a military surveyor producing an early survey of Scotland between 1747 and 1752. After settling in London, he worked as a drawing master to the aristocracy and developed his patronage and reputation through his network of amateur clients. Sandby was a founder member of the Royal Academy which was established in 1768, and subsequently became the first artist to employ aquatint in his picturesque views.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Paul Sandby

Date

c.1789

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 76.4 x W 63.6 cm

Accession number

1379

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Walter Arnold Sandby, 1904

Work type

Painting

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