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James Inskipp

James Inskipp

English painter

James Inskipp (1790 – 15 March 1868) started successfully painting when he retired. He exhibited in London and illustrated a version of the Compleat Angler.

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Life

Inskipp was born in 1790 and does not come to notice until he retires from the commissariat service when he was about 30 years old. He started to paint and successfully exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the Society of British Artists.[1]

Portrait of a girl by James Inskipp, watercolour.

Between 1833 and 1836 Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas published an edition of the Compleat Angler by Isaac Walton which was illustrated by Inskipp.[2] This book contained a portrait of Walton[3]

Death and legacy

Inskipp died at his home at Cattshall Lane in Godalming in 1868. Inskipp has paintings at Cyfarthfa Castle's Museum & Art Gallery and in the British Government Art Collection.[3]

An engraving by James Stewart of Inskipp's painting, The Legacy. in The Amulet annual for 1831 with illustrative verse by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

References

  1. [1]
    L. H. Cust, ‘Inskipp, James (1790–1868)’, rev. Chloe Johnson, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 Sept 2013
  2. [2]
    Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Inskipp, James" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. [3]
    3 artworks by or after James Inskipp at the Art UK site


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