PAUL

See also:

• PAUL SANDBY (1725-1809)

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