Background
He was a grandson of the artist Nicholas Pocock and brother of the painter Alfred Downing Fripp. Fripp was born in Bristol, and educated in Bristol, Birmingham and Leamington.
He was a grandson of the artist Nicholas Pocock and brother of the painter Alfred Downing Fripp. Fripp was born in Bristol, and educated in Bristol, Birmingham and Leamington.
He had lessons in oil painting from James Baker Pyne and first exhibited at the Bristol Society of Artists in 1832. In 1834 he accompanied the Bristol artist William James Müller on a sketching tour of Europe, which produced works he later exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1838. He became well known for his watercolours, mostly scenic British views.
Fripp died in Hampstead, London, in October 1896.
He is buried in the eastern section of Highgate Cemetery in north London. The grave lies in the north-east section close to George Eliot and just south of George Holyoake but is a flat stone at ground level and very hard to locate in the highly overgrown areas off the main paths.