SAWREY GILPIN, R.A. I9I 



in the great market his pupil is said to have found 

 his first models among the horses and carts which 

 thronged it daily. The Duke of Cumberland was 

 shown some of his sketches, and so greatly did their 

 merit impress him that he extended his patronage 

 to the young man. and employed him to paint 

 portraits of his favourite race horses at Newmarket 

 and Windsor. One of the pictures he exhibited 

 at the gallery of the Society of Artists in 1771, 

 reflects this connection ; it shows " The Duke of 

 Cumberland visiting the Stud at Windsor " ; this 

 work was painted in collaboration with another 

 pupil of Samuel Scott, namely W. Marlow who 

 executed the background, a view of the Castle. 



After leaving Samuel Scott, Gilpin went, in 1758 

 to Newmarket to study the horse ; and afterward 

 returned to London and settled in Knightsbridge. 

 He first appears as an exhibitor in the year 1762, 

 when he was represented in the gallery of the 

 Society of Artists ; for a period of twenty years 

 he was a frequent contributor to this exhibition, 

 sending altogether eighty-three works. Among these 

 may be noticed a drawing " Darius gaining the 

 Persian Empire," illustrative of the familiar legend : 

 " Gulliver's Visit to the Houyhnynms," and 

 "Gulliver taking leave ot the Houyhnynms," two 

 large paintmgs of incidents selected from Dean 

 Swift's classic ; the picture of " Gulliver's Visit 



