Background
George John Pinwell was born at High Wycombe, England on December 26, 1842.
(This is an original 1929 color print entitled "The Gossip...)
This is an original 1929 color print entitled "The Gossips" by George John Pinwell. This piece was illustrated by Pinwell, George John. Artist name printed on page - bottom right of image.
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George John Pinwell was born at High Wycombe, England on December 26, 1842.
In 1862 he was educated at Heatherley's Academy.
His earliest drawings appeared in Lilliput Levée. He did a little work for Fun and executed several designs for the silversmiths, Elkingtons. In 1863 his first drawing appeared in Once a Week, and from that time his work was in constant demand. There are many of his compositions in Good Words, The Sunday Magazine, The Quiver and London Society.
Of Pinwell’s pictures in colour, which are distinguished by a remarkable, jewel-like quality and marked by his strong love of pure, bright colour and opalescent effect.
In 1874 Pinwell fell seriously ill and went to Africa for the winter. He painted several remarkable pictures at Tangier, but his strength gradually broke down and he returned to die in his wife’s arms on the 8th of September 1875.
Pinwell was an exhibitor at the Dudley gallery; to this gallery he contributed fifty-nine works.
He died in London, and is buried at Highgate Cemetery. A posthumous exhibition of his works was held in 1876 in Bond Street.
(This is an original 1929 color print entitled "The Gossip...)
In 1869 was elected associate of the Royal Watercolour Society and then full member in 1871.
He is one of the most interesting personalities in the little group of water-colour painters which included Frederick Walker and A. B. Houghton, a group whose style was directly derived from the practice of drawing upon wood for book illustration. He was one of the most delightful book illustrators of his day, poetic in imagination, with considerable inventive power and an admirable sense of colour. As he died young his works are few, but their promise was so great that had he lived he would probably have attained a very high position.
He was married.