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William Gilpin

Born

in Cumberland, England

June 04, 1724

Died

April 05, 1804

Genre

Travel, Aesthetics, Biography

Influences

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William Gilpin was an English artist, Anglican cleric, schoolmaster and author. He is best known as one of those who originated the idea of the picturesque.

Gilpin was born in Cumberland, the son of Captain John Bernard Gilpin, a soldier and amateur artist. From an early age he was an enthusiastic sketcher and collector of prints, but while his brother Sawrey Gilpin became a professional painter, William opted for a career in the church, graduating from Queen's College, Oxford in 1748.

In 1768 Gilpin published his popular Essay on Prints where he defined the picturesque as '"that kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture" and began to expound his "principles of picturesque beauty", based largely on his knowledge of landscape painting. Du ...more

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Average rating: 3.63 · 82 ratings · 9 reviews · 372 distinct works

	U.S. Power and the Multinational Corporation: The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment 4.48 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; and On Sketching Landscape, with a Poem on Landscape Painting: to these are now added Two Essays giving an Account of the Principles and Mode in which the Author Executed his Own Drawings 3.07 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1794 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Observations on the River Wye 3.19 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1771 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dialogue upon the Gardens by William Gilpin, John Dixon Hunt (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Observations on the Western Parts of England, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty: to which are added a Few Remarks on the Picturesque Beauties of the Isle of Wight really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life Of Bernard Gilpin (1854) by William Gilpin, Clement Carlyon (Introduction) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gilpin's Forest Scenery it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of Dr Richard Gilpin, of Scaleby Castle in Cumberland: And of his Posterity in the Two Succeeding Generations by William Gilpin, William Jackson (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Essay on Prints really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Central Gold Region: The Grain, Pastoral and Gold Regions of North America. With Some New Views of Its Physical Geography; and Observations On the Pacific Railroad really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“We may be pleased with the description, and the picture: but the soul can feel neither, unless the force of our own imagination aid the poet’s, or the painter’s art; exalt the idea; and picture things unseen.”
― William Gilpin

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