Artist, author, cleric and schoolmaster. He was a sketcher and collector of prints, and worked as a curate, before becoming a master, and then headmaster at Cheam School. In 1768 he published 'Essay on Prints' in which he defined the picturesque as 'that kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture'. This resulted in him being satirised by William Combe and Thomas Rowlandson as 'Dr Syntax'.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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William Gilpin
William Gilpin 1724 - 1804 These flats have been built on the site of Cheam S...
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