Bidspirit auction | Original Water Colour - Jock

Original Water Colour - Jock & his muse - Innes Fripp (1867-1963) - Beautiful work of Art by well known artist Henry Charles Innes Fripp, who has signed the painting Innes Fripp in the lower right hand corner. It is not known what that Watercolour is title but it seems to depict a Scottish Artist (complete with Tam O Shanter) pleading with his rad headed muse. Henry Charles Innes Fripp, was born in Clifton, Bristol on the 19th November 1867, the son of Samuel Charles Fripp (1812-1882), the architect and sculptor and nephew of the artist George Arthur Fripp (1813-1896). He studied at Bristol School of Art, the Royal College of Art in Kensington and in Paris. He was an assistant principal at the Royal College of Art (1892-5). He taught drawing and painting at Lambeth school of Art 1894-c.1930. He was Professor of Art at Queen's College, Harley Street, London. He illustrated 'Human Anatomy for Art Students' by his cousin, the eminent surgeon Sir Alfred Downing Fripp (1865-1930). He was a Decorative Pictorial and Portrait painter and stained glass illustrator. He exhibited 19 works at the Royal Academy between 1893 and 1946. He also exhibited 5 paintings at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, 17 at the Dudley Gallery, 1 at Manchester City Art Gallery, 2 at the New Gallery and 21 at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour..