Henry Charles Innes Fripp (1867-1963) - Watercolour Dorchester on Thames

Description

A fine watercolour painting with body colour details by the British artist Henry Charles Innes Fripp. The scene depicts a view of the church of Dorchester on Thames. Signed to the lower left-hand corner. Well-presented in a double card mount and in a distressed gilt effect frame. On watercolour paper.

Condition

The condition is typical for a picture of this age including some discolouration. Very minor marks to the mount and small scuffs to the frame.

Size

33.7 x 22.7cm (13.3" x 8.9")
Framed Size: 52.5 x 41.5cm (20.7" x 16.3")

Artist Biography

Painter of genre pictures, illustrator, stained glass artist, designer and teacher commonly referred to as Innes Fripp. He came from a long line of artistic antecedents, his father Samuel Charles Fripp, (1812-1882) was an architect and sculptor, his uncle, George Arthur Fripp, (1813-1896) was a respected watercolourist, his cousin was military artist Charles Edwin Fripp, (1854-1906) and his great-great-grandfather was the renowned maritime painter Nicholas Pocock, (1740-1821). Innes Fripp studied at the Bristol Municipal School of Art and then in London at the Royal College of Art and completed his studies in Paris. He later taught at his London alma mater and also at Lambeth School of Art. Much of his better-known works are of fantasy or religious themes a pattern he followed when illustrating books.


As an exhibitor, he showed at the Dudley Gallery, New Gallery, Royal Academy, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts and at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. Although he lived in Putney, London his death occurred n Battersea Hospital.