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GEORGE JOHN PINWELL (1842-1875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 631 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:JOHN See also:PINWELL (1842-1875)  , See also:British See also:water-See also:colour painter, was See also:born at See also:Wycombe, and educated at Heatherley's See also:Academy . He is one of the most interesting personalities in the little See also:group of water-colour painters which included See also:Frederick See also:Walker and A . B . See also:Houghton, a group whose See also:style was directly derived from the practice of See also:drawing upon See also:wood for See also:book See also:illustration . He was one of the most delightful book illustrators of his See also:day, poetic in See also:imagination, with considerable inventive See also:power and an admirable sense of colour . As he died See also:young his See also:works are few, but their promise was so See also:great that had he lived he would probably have attained a very high position . His See also:early See also:life was one of considerable privation . In 1862 he entered at Heatherley's studio and there obtained his See also:art See also:education . His earliest drawings appeared in Lilliput See also:Levee . He did a little See also:work for Fun and executed several designs for the silversmiths, Elkingtons . In 1863 his first drawing appeared in Once a See also:Week,631 and from that See also:time his work was in See also:constant demand . There are many of his compositions in See also:Good Words, The See also:Sunday See also:Magazine, The See also:Quiver and See also:London Society, but his most important productions made for the Dalziel See also:brothers were illustrations of See also:Goldsmith, of See also:Jean See also:Ingelow's poems, See also:Robert See also:Buchanan's See also:Ballads of the Affections, and the Arabian Nights .

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Pinwell's pictures in colour, which are distinguished by a remarkable, See also:jewel-like quality and marked by his strong love of pure, See also:bright colour and opalescent effect, the See also:chief are the two scenes from the Pied See also:Piper of See also:Hamelin, See also:Gilbert d See also:Becket's Troth, Out of Tune or The Old See also:Cross, A Seat in St See also:James's See also:Park, and The See also:Elixir of Life . In 1874 Pinwell See also:fell seriously See also:ill and went to See also:Africa for the See also:winter . He painted several remarkable pictures at See also:Tangier, but his strength gradually See also:broke down and he returned to See also:die in his wife's arms on the 8th of See also:September 1875 . Pinwell was an exhibitor at the See also:Dudley See also:gallery, and in 1869 was elected See also:associate of the Royal Water-Colour Society and full member in 1870; to this gallery he contributed fifty-nine works . A See also:posthumous See also:exhibition of his works was held in 1876 in See also:Bond See also:Street . See Life of See also:George J . Pinwell, by George C . See also:Williamson, See also:quarto, 1900 . (G . C .

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