English oil painter and watercolourist
Edward Villiers Rippingille
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Self-portrait_-_Edward_Villiers_Rippingille.jpg/220px-Self-portrait_-_Edward_Villiers_Rippingille.jpg) Self-portrait, in oil on copper
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Born
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1790
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Died
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1859-04-22
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22 April 1859
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Nationality
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Known for
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Watercolour
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Edward Villiers Rippingille
(c. 1790–1859) was an English
oil painter
and
watercolourist
who was a member of the informal group of artists which has come to be known as the
Bristol School
. In that group he was a particularly close associate of both
Edward Bird
and
Francis Danby
.
[1]
[2]
Early life
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Rippingille was born in
King's Lynn
, Norfolk, the son of a farmer.
[1]
His year of birth is now believed to be c. 1790 rather than 1798, as previously thought.
[2]
For a period he worked taking portraits and teaching drawing in
Wisbech
, where his paintings were seen and admired by
John Clare
.
[3]
In 1813 he exhibited at the
Norwich Society of Artists
, and showed
Enlisting
at the
Royal Academy
.
[2]
Bristol School
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He moved to
Bristol
, where he participated in the sketching activities of the Bristol School.
[1]
Rippingille's
Sketching Party in Leigh Woods
(c. 1828) depicts a sketching excursion in
Leigh Woods
typical of those made by the school's members.
[4]
He worked particularly closely with Edward Bird, and was influenced by Bird's
genre painting
, which was naturalistic and freshly coloured.
[5]
In 1814 they both exhibited works at the Royal Academy with the same subject,
The Cheat Detected
.
[6]
Rippingille was also a close friend of Francis Danby, and his style developed alongside that of Danby under Bird's influence.
[5]
[7]
In 1819 Rippingille had a success at the Royal Academy with
The Post Office
.
[1]
In 1822 the Royal Academy saw
The Recruiting Sergeant
, a work following the style of Bird, and
The Funeral Procession of William Canynge to St Mary Redcliffe, 1474
. These works were among Rippingille's finest achievements in the fields of genre and
historical painting
respectively.
[2]
He exhibited by himself at the new
Bristol Institution
in 1823, and in 1824 was one of the organisers of the first exhibition there by local artists.
[1]
In 1824 he exhibited
The Stage Coach Breakfast
at the Royal Academy. This is his best known painting. It depicts some of the literary figures associated with Bristol:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
,
William Wordsworth
and
Robert Southey
.
[4]
Later years
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In 1830 Rippingille left Bristol and travelled to France and Germany. He returned to London where he married in 1832, before travelling to France again, in the company of
James Baker Pyne
. In 1835, returning to London, he held his own exhibition at
Regent Street
. From 1837 he conducted trips to Italy and concentrated on Italian subjects. He died on 22 April 1859 at
Swan Village railway station
in the
West Midlands
.
[1]
Rippingille had a brother, Alexander, who was also a painter working in Bristol.
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References
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Greenacre, Francis (1973).
The Bristol School of Artists: Francis Danby and Painting in Bristol 1810?1840 (exhibition catalogue)
. Bristol: City Art Gallery, Bristol. pp. 121?126.
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a
b
c
d
Greenacre, Francis (2004). "Rippingille, Edward Villiers". In Matthew, H.C.G.; Harrison, Brian (eds.).
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
. Vol. 47. Oxford University Press. p. 1003.
ISBN
0-19-861396-2
.
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Edward Storey (1982).
A Right to Song
. Methuen.
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a
b
Greenacre, Francis (2005).
From Bristol to the Sea: Artists, the Avon Gorge and Bristol Harbour
. Bristol: Redcliffe. p. 70.
ISBN
1-904537-39-1
.
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a
b
Greenacre, Francis (1973).
The Bristol School of Artists: Francis Danby and Painting in Bristol 1810?1840 (exhibition catalogue)
. Bristol: City Art Gallery, Bristol. pp. 105?107.
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Richardson, Sarah (1982).
Edward Bird (exhibition catalogue)
. Wolverhampton: Wolverhampton Art Gallery. pp. 18?22.
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Greenacre, Francis (1988).
Francis Danby 1793?1861
. London: Tate Gallery. pp. 13?17.
ISBN
1-85437-000-6
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