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Baldry, A. L.: The members of the society
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THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY
to the Associate class, two, Arthur Glennie and W. Lake Price, in
1837, William Callow in 1838, George Arthur Fripp in 1841, and
Octavius Oakley in February 1842. Glennie showed more than
four hundred drawings during his connection with the Society, a
connection which lasted until his death in January 1890 ; and
these drawings were almost entirely of foreign landscapes. The last
thirty-five years of his life he spent at Rome, a city which he had
previously visited and sketched ; and he travelled extensively in
various parts of the Continent. Lake Price painted architecture and
figure compositions with architectural backgrounds ; he was a pupil
of Augustus Pugin and De Wint. He left the Society in 1852.
William Callow, who is still living and working, was in his earlier
life a famous teacher. He went to Paris to study when he was a
boy of sixteen, and remained there for some twelve years, painting
and teaching. Among his pupils were many members of the
Orleanist royal family. He continued to teach for more than forty
years after his return to England in 1841, but despite his many
engagements he has found time to execute a large number ot
admirable drawings of landscape and picturesque buildings, and he
has taken a very definite position among our leading water-colour
painters. Fripp and Oakley were both men of ability ; the former
made a reputation by his landscapes and river scenes, and the latter
by his rustic figure compositions and water-colour portraits.
After 1842 there was a perceptible increase in the number of elec-
tions. In 1843 the successful candidates were William Collingwood
Smith, a landscape painter whose method was in many respects akin
to that of the earlier water-colourists ; Thomas Miles Richardson,
the son of a Newcastle artist, and a prolific and skilful worker who
before his death in 1890 contributed more than eight hundred land-
scapes to the Society’s exhibitions ; and Samuel Palmer, a romanticist
who was in his earlier life much influenced by William Blake and
John Linnell. He painted more or less idealised landscapes brilliant
in illumination and strong in colour, and distinguished by remarkable
qualities of poetic invention. The great merit of his work is its
notable beauty of sentiment, and it presents an admirable and rather
rare combination of naturalism and imagination. Palmer was
advanced to full membership in 1854, and he held this position till
his death in 1881.
Alfred Downing Fripp, a younger brother of George Fripp, was
elected in 1844 with Douglas Morison, a young artist who died
only two or three years later, after a brief career in which he showed
much promise as an architectural and landscape painter. Fripp
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to the Associate class, two, Arthur Glennie and W. Lake Price, in
1837, William Callow in 1838, George Arthur Fripp in 1841, and
Octavius Oakley in February 1842. Glennie showed more than
four hundred drawings during his connection with the Society, a
connection which lasted until his death in January 1890 ; and
these drawings were almost entirely of foreign landscapes. The last
thirty-five years of his life he spent at Rome, a city which he had
previously visited and sketched ; and he travelled extensively in
various parts of the Continent. Lake Price painted architecture and
figure compositions with architectural backgrounds ; he was a pupil
of Augustus Pugin and De Wint. He left the Society in 1852.
William Callow, who is still living and working, was in his earlier
life a famous teacher. He went to Paris to study when he was a
boy of sixteen, and remained there for some twelve years, painting
and teaching. Among his pupils were many members of the
Orleanist royal family. He continued to teach for more than forty
years after his return to England in 1841, but despite his many
engagements he has found time to execute a large number ot
admirable drawings of landscape and picturesque buildings, and he
has taken a very definite position among our leading water-colour
painters. Fripp and Oakley were both men of ability ; the former
made a reputation by his landscapes and river scenes, and the latter
by his rustic figure compositions and water-colour portraits.
After 1842 there was a perceptible increase in the number of elec-
tions. In 1843 the successful candidates were William Collingwood
Smith, a landscape painter whose method was in many respects akin
to that of the earlier water-colourists ; Thomas Miles Richardson,
the son of a Newcastle artist, and a prolific and skilful worker who
before his death in 1890 contributed more than eight hundred land-
scapes to the Society’s exhibitions ; and Samuel Palmer, a romanticist
who was in his earlier life much influenced by William Blake and
John Linnell. He painted more or less idealised landscapes brilliant
in illumination and strong in colour, and distinguished by remarkable
qualities of poetic invention. The great merit of his work is its
notable beauty of sentiment, and it presents an admirable and rather
rare combination of naturalism and imagination. Palmer was
advanced to full membership in 1854, and he held this position till
his death in 1881.
Alfred Downing Fripp, a younger brother of George Fripp, was
elected in 1844 with Douglas Morison, a young artist who died
only two or three years later, after a brief career in which he showed
much promise as an architectural and landscape painter. Fripp
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