George AFripp and Alfred DFripp . , and in S. RedgravesDescriptive Catalogue of the . . Water-ColourPaintings in the South Kensington Museum,pp. 58-60, 1877. A minor result of the publication of these** Quarterlies will be in the correction ofnumerous faults in matters of fact, ^ dates,confusion of two or more artists, sometimesbrothers, or sometimes fathers and sons, frequency of such errors in importantcatalogues, dictionaries of painters, and periodi-cals of standing has been surprising. They,moreover, get copied from one book or periodi-cal into another. Future historians andre
George AFripp and Alfred DFripp . , and in S. RedgravesDescriptive Catalogue of the . . Water-ColourPaintings in the South Kensington Museum,pp. 58-60, 1877. A minor result of the publication of these** Quarterlies will be in the correction ofnumerous faults in matters of fact, ^ dates,confusion of two or more artists, sometimesbrothers, or sometimes fathers and sons, frequency of such errors in importantcatalogues, dictionaries of painters, and periodi-cals of standing has been surprising. They,moreover, get copied from one book or periodi-cal into another. Future historians andresearch students in Art will be grateful toMr. Augustus Walker for his enterprise instarting this series of monographs. It is as-tonishing how soon the salient facts of a personslife, and particularly dates, get forgotten, if not noted within a short period or recorded soonafter death. Even present-day catalogues ofpicture exhibitions are often far from accuratein the spelHng of place-names or in the actualtitle of a picture. lO. GEORGE ARTHUR FRIPP,(1813-1896) HIS LIFE AND WORK The Fripps were an old Somerset family,and they had been known for some years asmerchants of repute in Bristol, when GeorgeArthur Fripp was born in that place, 13th June,1813. He died at 50, Holmdale Road, WestHampstead, on October 17th, 1896, and wasburied at Highgate Cemetery. He was thesecond son of the Rev. Samuel Charles Fripp,, of Bristol, who married a daughter ofNicholas Pocock of that city, the painter ofmarine scenes and naval engagements, and oneof the founders, in 1804, of the Society ofPainters in Water-Colours. To further showthe artistic tendencies of the family, it may bementioned that Fripps paternal grandfatherwas a collector of Dutch and other pictures. It is interesting to note that the Rev. S. , who had declined preferment in theChurch of England, occasionally assisted thewell-known Unitarian minister. Rev. Dr. LantCarpenter, at Lewins Mead Chapel, Bristol,and acted as hon
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