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Sandby, Paul
In Windsor Forest Dans la forêt de Windsor
1782 1782

The British landscape painter Paul Sandby had a far-reaching influence on early Canadian art. As drawing master of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich from 1768-1796, Sandby taught many of the young men who, later garrisoned in North America, would serve as topographical artists and whose Canadian views are among the earliest visual records of the landscape. George Heriot and James Patterson Cockburn are among his notable pupils. Sandby was born in Nottingham and worked closely with his brother Thomas, a fellow artist who was employed as a draftsman and engineer by the Duke of Cumberland, ranger of Windsor Forest. In Windsor Forest is a later work, demonstrating Sandby’s skill at moving beyond the merely topographical to the picturesque.

Sandby, Paul
Notthingham, England 1725-London, England 1809 Notthingham, England 1725-London, England 1809
In Windsor Forest Dans la forêt de Windsor
1782 1782
ink, watercolour on paper, laid down Encre et aquarelle sur papier collé sur papier
height / width: 48.30 x 65.00 cm; 19.02 x 25.59 in.
Purchase, George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund, 1977 Achat, Fonds commémoratif George Taylor Richardson, 1977
20-048

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