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See also:PAUL See also:SANDBY (1725-1809) , See also:English See also:water-See also:colour painter, was See also:born at See also:Nottingham in 1725 . In 1746 he was appointed by the See also:duke of See also:Cumberland draughtsman to the survey of the See also:Highlands . In 1752 he quitted this See also:post and retired to See also:Windsor, where he occupied himself with the See also:production of water-colour drawings of scenery and See also:architecture . See also:Sir See also:Joseph See also:Banks commissioned him to bring out in See also:aquatint (a method of See also:engraving then See also:peculiar to See also:Sandby) See also:forty-eight plates See also:drawn during a tour in See also:Wales . Sandby displayed considerable See also:power as a caricaturist in his See also:attempt to ridicule the opposition of See also:Hogarth to the See also:plan for creating a public See also:academy for the arts . In 1768 he was chosen a See also:foundation-member of the Royal Academy and appointed See also:chief See also:drawing-See also:master to the Royal Military Academy at See also:Woolwich . He held this situation till 1799 . Sandby is best remembered, however, by his water-colour paintings . They are topographical in See also:character, and, while they want the richness and brilliancy of See also:modern water-colour, he nevertheless impressed upon them the originality of his mind . His etchings, such as the Cries of See also:London and the illustrations to See also:Ramsay's See also:Gentle Shepherd, and his plates, such as those to See also:Tasso's See also:Jerusalem Delivered, are numerous and carefully executed . He died in London on the 9th of See also:November 1809 . |
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