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See also: English See also: water-colour painter, was See also: born at Nottingham in 1725
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In 1746 he was appointed by the duke of See also: Cumberland draughtsman to the survey of the See also: Highlands
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In 1752 he quitted this See also: post and retired to Windsor, where he occupied himself with the production of water-colour drawings of scenery and architecture
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See also: Sir See also: Joseph See also: Banks commissioned him to bring out in 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
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Sandby displayed considerable power as a caricaturist in his attempt to ridicule the opposition of See also: Hogarth to the See also: plan for creating a public See also: academy for the arts
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In 1768 he was chosen a foundation-member of the Royal Academy and appointed chief See also: drawing-master to the Royal Military Academy at See also: Woolwich
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He held this situation till 1799
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Sandby is best remembered, however, by his water-colour paintings
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They are topographical in 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
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His etchings, such as the Cries of See also: London and the illustrations to See also: Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd, and his plates, such as those to See also: Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered,
are numerous and carefully executed
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He died in London on the 9th of See also: November 1809
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