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SAWREY GILPIN, R.A. 



(Born 1733. Died 1807.) 



OAWREY GILPIN, son of Captain John Ber- 

 ^ nard Gilpin by his wife Matilda, daughter of 

 George Longstaffe, was born at Carlisle in 1733. 

 The Gilpins come of a very old Cumberland family, 

 the famous " Apostle of the North," Bernard 

 Gilpin, a collateral ancestor, being recognised as a 

 man of ancient lineage even in his day (15 17-1600). 

 Captain Gilpin possessed some artistic talent him- 

 self and was able to direct his son's first efforts 

 with the pencil ; but the boy's exceptional ability 

 soon became evident to his father, and at the 

 age of fourteen Sawrey Gilpin was sent up to 

 London to study under Samuel Scott, the emi- 

 nent painter of river pieces and sea-scapes. 



From the circumstance that his father sent 

 Sawrey Gilpin to study under Scott, we may hazard 

 the conjecture that at this early period the special 

 bent of his genius had not declared itself ; but if 

 this were so it was not long before his peculiar skill 

 in portraying animals was recognised. Scott lived 

 in the near neighbourhood of Covent Garden, and 



