(1733 - 1807)
Sawrey Gilpin, animal painter, was born at Scaleby near Carlisle, the seventh child of landscape painter, Captain John Bernard Gilpin. He initially studied under his father, before being apprenticed to the marine painter Samuel Scott in London from 1749 to 1756. He remained with Scott as an assistant until 1758, devoting himself to horse painting. He later attracted the patronage of the Duke of Cumberland, who employed him to paint portraits of his favourite racing horses and other subjects at Newmarket. From 1762 to 1783 he exhibited at the Society of Artists in Great Britain, of which he became President in 1774. He became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1794 and a full Royal Academician two years later.
