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George Arnald ARA (1763 – 21 November 1841) was a British painter who specialised in landscapes, including topographical views to illustrated county histories. He is best known for his celebrated painting depicting the Battle of the Nile. ==Biography== George Arnald was born in 1763. One account places his birth in the village of Farndip (now Farndish) in Northamptonshire (now Bedfordshire), although others suggest he was born in Berkshire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=George Arnald biography on the National Maritime Museum website ) 〕〔 There is little information about Arnald's early years, but it is believed that he began his working life as a domestic servant before turning to the study of art. He was a student of the landscape painter and engraver William Pether (c. 1738–1821).〔 Arnald first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1788, and eventually had 176 works exhibited there. He also exhibited 63 works at the British Institution. He was elected an associate member of the Royal Academy〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of Royal Academicians (A) )〕 on 5 November 1810, but was never admitted to full membership. Speaking to Sir George Beaumont, who was influential in the founding of the British Institution and the National Gallery, William Wordsworth lamented Arnald's lack of literary education, stating that he Probably his best-known and most acclaimed work was a departure from his usual subject-matter. ''The Destruction of L'Orient at the Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798'' is Arnald's only known maritime work,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biography of William Henry Pickersgill ) 〕 and was one of four paintings commissioned for £500 each〔 as part of a British Institution competition for paintings to hang in the Painted Hall of Greenwich Hospital. It was exhibited at the British Institution in 1827〔 and is now displayed at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. It features as a "picture within a picture" in a work by Thomas Davidson, hanging alongside the famous Lemuel Abbott portrait of Lord Nelson in the gallery at Greenwich Hospital.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Greenwich Hospital collection BHC 1811 at Portcities.org.uk )〕 Arnald was a friend of fellow painter John Varley, and in 1798 and 1799 the two toured Wales together. His students included the portrait painter Henry William Pickersgill,〔 who became a full Royal Academician〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of Royal Academicians (P) )〕 and whose eminent sitters included William Wordsworth, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Philip Mould Ltd: Historical portraits image library )〕 In addition to providing illustrations for a number of books, Arnald published on his own an album of views on the River Meuse in 1828 (river Meuse : being delineations of the picturesque scenery on the river and its banks, from the city of Liége to that of Mezières. The drawings were made ... in ... 1818 / and are etched by George Arnald, engraved in mezzotint by S. W. Reynolds, C. Turner, W. Ward ... , T. Lupton, H. Dawe, J. P. Quilley, etc. ... and other eminent engravers'' ).〔Copy in National Art Library, V&A (issued in parts from at least 1822).〕 In 1839 he published ''A practical treatise on landscape painting in oil: illustrated by various diagrams and with two original studies in oil painted on the principles given in the treatise''.〔Copy in NAL; see P. Bicknell & J. Munro, ''Gilpin to Ruskin: Drawing Masters and their Manuals, 1800-1860'' (1988), no. 49.〕 Arnald died in Pentonville, London on 21 November 1841. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Arnald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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