Charles Edwin Fripp
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Charles Edwin Fripp painter and illustrator, and special war artist. He was one of the twelve children of George Arthur Fripp
George Arthur Fripp
George Arthur Fripp was a British artist who specialised in watercolours. He was a grandson of the artist Nicholas Pocock and brother of the painter Alfred Downing Fripp....

 (1822–1895), a landscape artist, and Mary Percival. His brother Thomas W. Fripp also became a watercolourist in Canada.

Charles Edwin Fripp was an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society
Royal Watercolour Society
The Royal Watercolour Society is an English institution of painters working in watercolours...

. He painted mainly military subjects and worked as a special artist for The Graphic and The Daily Graphic during various wars in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 including the Kaffir War of 1878, the Zulu War, and the Boer War
Boer War
The Boer Wars were two wars fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Oranje Vrijstaat and the Republiek van Transvaal ....

; he also covered the Sino-Japanese War
First Sino-Japanese War
The First Sino-Japanese War was fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan, primarily over control of Korea...

 of 1894-95 and the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

 campaign of the Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence...

 in 1899. He exhibited The Last Stand at Isandhula and The Attack on General Sir John McNeill’s Force near Suakim at the Royal Academy
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...

 in 1885 and 1886 respectively. The former is now in the National Army Museum in London, England, while the latter is in the collection of the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regimental Museum at Salisbury, England, having been presented to the Royal Berkshire Regiment in January 1929.

Works By

  • Fripp, Charles E., 'Reminiscences of the Zulu War, 1879', Pall Mall Magazine, Vol. XX, January-April 1900, pp. 547–562.

Further reading

  • Harrington, Peter (1993). British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700-1914, London: Greenhill.
  • Hodgson, Pat (1977). The War Illustrators, London.
  • Mireux (1911). Dictionnaire des Ventes d’Art, Vol III.
  • Newall, Christopher (1987). Victorian Watercolours.
  • Roget, J. L. (1891). History of the Old Watercolour Society, Vol II.
  • Wood, Christopher (2008). Victorian Painters, Vol 1. The Text.
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